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françois laruelle

françois laruelle -lrb- ; born 22 august 1937 -rrb- is a french philosopher , formerly of the collège international de philosophie and the .
laruelle has been publishing since the early 1970s and now has around twenty book-length titles to his name .
alumnus of the École normale supérieure , laruelle is notable for developing a science of philosophy that he calls `` non-philosophy '' .
he currently directs an international organisation dedicated to furthering the cause of non-philosophy , the organisation non-philosophique internationale .
until a decade ago , he has been described by scottish philosopher ray brassier as `` the most important unknown philosopher working in europe today '' -lrb- brassier , 2003 , p. 24 -rrb- and was described by gilles deleuze and félix guattari as `` engaged in one of the most interesting undertakings of contemporary philosophy . ''
english-language reception of his work owes most to the efforts of brassier , who published an account of laruelle 's `` non-philosophy '' in `` radical philosophy '' in 2003 and critically incorporated aspects of that work into his own project , set out in `` nihil unbound '' .
nowadays , laruelle 's international reception is growing with dozens of titles a year translated and published in english by such publishing houses as edinburgh university press , contiunuum , palgrave macmillan , columbia university press , urbanomic/sequence and others .
