ABSTRACT
One of the most innovative aspects of Francois Laruelle's project of non-philosophy is its treatment of the relation of the theoretical and practical. The problem of theory and practice is a highly general one for philosophy, manifest in various ways throughout ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and other philosophical domains. This chapter draws heavily upon the technical apparatus of meaning-use diagrams developed by the American analytic pragmatist philosopher Robert Brandom in his 2008 Between Saying and Doing in order to clarify how Laruelle's non-philosophical axiomatics transforms the problematic of theory and practice in philosophical expression. Brandom uses a diagrammatic method of relation-composition derived partly from category theory to represent the relevant relations between philosophical vocabularies and practices and their various entailments. The three-component diagram may be understood roughly as successive stages in the development of an argument, but this only in order to grasp ultimately the simultaneous structure, the immediate "impasse" of philosophy and non-philosophy as expressed in the main diagram.
