The origins of Laruelle\u27s non-philosophy in Ravaisson\u27s understanding of metaphysics

Laruelle\u27s first book Phenomenon and Difference: An Essay on Ravaisson\u27s Ontology (1971) is unanimously overlooked as having little relevance to his later non-philosophy. On the contrary, this paper analyses Laruelle\u27s dissertation and Ravaisson\u27s writings to show how Ravaisson enables Laruelle to develop non-philosophy\u27s three central ideas of decision, radical immanence, and cloning. Firstly, Laruelle inherits Ravaisson\u27s critique of Platonism and anti-Platonism as dividing the unity of being between two terms, of which one alone is conflated with being to the detriment of the other as non-being. Moreover, Laruelle follows Ravaisson\u27s third way of envisioning being as a radical immanence, which philosophy presupposes to constitute its dualisms by dividing being into opposed terms. Finally, Laruelle\u27s cloning adheres to Ravaisson\u27s eclectic method of expressing being\u27s true immanence through his cohering of all philosophies, as well as disciplines like art and religion, into a single narrative of one and the same being\u27s self-unfolding