Bloomsbury Academic Real is Radical, The: Marx after Laruelle

The Real is Radical is centrally concerned with the explication and development of François Laruelles theory of non-standard Marxism. Fardy assembles a constellation of concepts designed to put Laruelles work into dialogue with diverse theoretical perspectives, including Althusser, Tronti, Adorno, Baudrillard, Kolozova and others while demonstrating the novelty and theoretical saliency of Laruelles work. The Real is Radical provides a much-needed introduction to non-standard Marxism and a useful starting point for the development of its theoretical potential. Review Jonathan Fardys The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle is probably the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to non-Marxism, an emerging field of Marxist theory radicalized through the methods of François Laruelles non-standard philosophy. Fardys approach is rigorous, analytic, and imaginative, opening exciting new avenues to approach Marxs text by way of a method rid of the burden of the principle of philosophical sufficiency (Laruelle). --Katerina Kolozova, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, Serbia About the Author Jonathan Fardy is Assistant Professor of Art History at Idaho State University, USA. His research focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and theoretical practice. He is the author of Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2020).