ABSTRACT
Francois Laruelle was present as a keynote speaker, one of many planned keynote speakers meant to speak alongside and in conversation with prominent Christian theologians like John Milbank, Stanley Hauerwas, and Graham Ward. Laruelle claims that one of the reasons for the negative move of non-philosophy, which is only one aspect of the non-philosophical stance, is because philosophy is a harassing discourse for human beings and other creatures. This chapter shows the ways in which Laruelle's non-philosophy shares many of the same impulses of contemporary radical philosophy, feminism included, and diverges from them, as Laruelle and Schmid both posit philosophical sexual difference as something to be liberated from in the name of feminist struggle. Laruelle argues for a return to seeing human beings as simple means, but a means rethought and revalorized: means placed under the ultimatum of protection. Laruelle and Schmid attempts to show the ways in which non-philosophy separates the human.
