A Critique of the Subjectivity-Centered Epistemo-Ontology: A Triangular Glance Combining Marx, Laruelle, Irigaray in Dialogue with Gabriel

This chapter engages in a non-philosophical (Laruellian) discussion of the question of subjectivity and the status it holds in contemporary philosophy, in ontological, epistemic and political sense combined with the method of “exit from philosophy” as conceived and applied by Karl Marx. It is centered on problematization of the notion of “subjectivity” in line with the theses put forward by Marx in both his early and some of the later works: its status of the organizing principle, of the structural law of philosophical thought tout court displays naïve anthropocentrism but also anthropomorphism of thought. The organizing principle at hand renders all philosophy idealist, including the one that strives to be materialist and objective, argues Marx. The paper mobilizes the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and Markus Gabriel in an attempt to revisit Marx’s proposal through a contemporary lens.