Mysticism Without Transcendence? Laruelle’s 'Vision-in-One' with Jeremy R. Smith
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Apr 20, 2025
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Non-Philosophy Empowers Humans
François Laruelle's non-philosophy uses philosophy as a tool for humans rather than subordinating humans to philosophy.
It proposes a unilateral, not dialectical, relationship allowing philosophy to serve individual freedom and democracy.
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Unlearned Knowing Explained
Laruelle's concept of 'unlearned knowing' resonates with the inchoate impulse that some knowledge is innate and inaccessible through traditional education.
This form of knowing exists without mediation and is lived immediately inside human experience.
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Vision in One Framework
'Vision in One' is a non-relational, immanent framework where knowing occurs within an undivided unity without transcendence.
This knowledge is given without givenness, accessed immediately without mediation or representation.
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In this special crossover episode of LEPHT HAND and Acid Horizon, we explore the radical mysticism of François Laruelle through his essay Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing. Laruelle proposes a mysticism stripped of transcendence and doctrine—one grounded in solitude, immanence, and the irreducibility of lived experience. Our guest, translator Jeremy R. Smith, helps unpack Laruelle’s challenge to Neoplatonism, dialectics, and the pedagogical authority of philosophy. Along the way, we consider how this "unlearned knowing" might offer tools for thinking mysticism on the left, beyond both theology and theory.
Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-i7-kfCt_ykSxrMrUIeNxLwLKcCzcl3LbSJCR_etVQ/edit?tab=t.0
Acid Horizon