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After finitude : an essay on the necessity of contingency / Quentin Meillassoux ; translated by Ray Brassier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meillassoux, Quentin, 1967-
- Standardized Title:
- Après la finitude. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, French--21st century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 148 pages.)
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2009.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Quentin Meillassoux's remarkable debut makes a strikingly original contribution to contemporary French philosophy and is set to have a significant impact on the future of continental philosophy. Written in a style that marries great clarity of expression with argumentative rigour, After Finitude provide bold readings of the history of philosophy and sets out a devastating critique of the unavowed fideism at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy.
- Meillassoux introduces a startlingly novel philosophical alternative to the forced choice between dogmatism and critique. After Finitude proposes a new alliance between philosophy and science and calls for an unequivocal half to the creeping return of religiosity in contemporary philosophy, theology and religion.
- The exceptional lucidity and the centrality of argument in Meillassoux's writing should appeal to Analysis as well as Continental philosophers, while his critique of fideism will be of interest to anyone preoccupied by the relation between philosophy, theology and religion.
- Contents:
- Ancestrality
- Metaphysics, fideism, speculation
- Principle of factiality
- Hume's problem
- Ptolemy's revenge.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Originally published 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781441158352
- 1441158359
- Publisher Number:
- 99984103681
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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