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François Laruelle, "Theorems on the Good News"
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THEOREMS ON THE GOOD NEWS
†
François Laruelle
Teorem 0 or the Transcendental Teorem,
On Nontransferable Identity
Nothing can, except through illusion, substitute itself for man and for his identity.
And man cannot, except through illusion, substitute himself for philosophy, for the Other,
etc. Man is an inalienable reality. There is no reversibility between man and philosophy.
Teorem 00,
On the Proof, as Transcendental or By Way of 0
The previous theorem is demonstrated (for) itself, that is, non-thetically. The
present theorem and those that follow derive from the previous.
Teorem 000
On the Hallucinated Murder
Since nothing can be substituted for man, and man substituted for nothing, he can
be the killer of nothing, much less of himself. Those who pretend to kill God and the
Subject--to kill “man” even--are disabused by such an announcement.
Teorem 0000
On the Identity of the Killer
The identity of the killer is obtained before any kind of identification: if man is
not the killer of man, then philosophy must be the killer. Philosophy is what constructs
God and the Subject, and philosophy fells them in the same motion.
Teorem 00000
On the Suicide of the Other
There is no death of man. There is only a suicide of philosophy (of God and of the
Subject, etc.). And the suicide is always that of the Other.
Teorem 000000
On the Suicide Disguised as Murder
Philosophy has but one goal: to make man believe that he must identify himself
with philosophy; to make man assume this suicide, a suicide disguised as murder charged
against man.
Teorem 0000000
On Philosophical Servitude or on the Statute
† Originally published as François Laruelle, “Théorèmes de la Bonne Nouvelle,” La Décision philosophique
1 (May 1987): 83-85.
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To primitive Myth and to Jewish Law is added the Decision or the Ontological
Statute. To poetic authority and to ethical authority is added philosophical authority.
Teorem 00000000
On the Principle of Sufficient Philosophy
The Statute refers to the domination of philosophy over man, the point when the
Decision takes the form of the Principle of Sufficient Philosophy or All-Philosophy,
when it professes to consume the entire essence of man.
Teorem 000000000
On the Colonization of Man
Following on from the primitive Myth and Jewish Law that it tries to incorporate
into itself, the Philosophical Decision is the third great power, alien to thought, that has
risen up from the abysses of the World and made its assault on Human Identity. It is not
man who colonizes the planet, but the planet and the cosmos who transgress the lonely
threshold of man.
Teorem 0000000000
On the Enchantment of the Greeks
In being sufficient, philosophy acts on man through a kind of causality resembling
enchantment; logos imprisons man within a magic circle, and it closes around him a
second time just as he strives to exit the circle.
Teorem 00000000000
On the Advent of Impotence
As long as man lives under the Decision or the Principle of Sufficient Philosophy,
he lives also within an impotence of thought and within an infinite culpability.
Teorem 000000000000
On Seduction Played by Innocence
Man is too innocent to avoid being seduced by the notion that there are no more
traps, when (as is the case in philosophy) this conceit lets itself be taken as man's own
entrapment. Inversely, man does not take on the Statute without having played or evaded
it beforehand.
Teorem 0000000000000
On the Abolition of the Statute
The abolition of the Statute or of the Decision is an event without remainder,
more radical than the abolition of the Law (because it lacks reversal, consummation, or
interiorization, etc.).
Teorem 00000000000000
On the Radical Origin of Man
Man is neither Greek nor Jew, nor the difference between Greek and Jew. He is
the innumerable and solitary son of man.
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Teorem 000000000000000
On the Announcement Made to Men
Man is the only announcement that can really be made to man, and the
announcement is identical to the Abolition of the Statute.
Teorem 0000000000000000
On Non-thetic Gospel [Kérygme]
The announcement announces nothing if not itself. The man-who-is-accounced is
the only content of the announcement made to men.
Teorem 00000000000000000
On the Daughter of Man
Philosophy is the daughter of man: man is no more a historical product of
philosophy than philosophy his product. Philosophy is already made, but made for him
and for him to rejoice in beholding it.
Translated by Alexander R. Galloway