After Finitude

Author : Quentin Meillassoux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441121332

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After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux Pdf

From the preface by Alain Badiou: It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy, understood here as the history of what it is to know ... This remarkable "critique of critique" is introduced here without embellishment, cutting straight to the heart of the matter in a particularly clear and logical manner. It allows the destiny of thought to be the absolute once more. "This work is one of the most important to appear in continental philosophy in recent years and deserves a wide readership at the earliest possible date ... Après la finitude is an important book of philosophy by an authnted emerging voices in continental thought. Quentin Meillassoux deserves our close attention in the years to come and his book deserves rapid translation and widespread discussion in the English-speaking world. There is nothing like it." -Graham Harman in Philosophy Today 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 provides bold readings of the history of philosophy and sets out a devastating critique of the unavowed fideism at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. The exceptional lucidity and the centrality of argument in Meillassoux's writing should appeal to analytic 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. 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 halt to the creeping return of religiosity in contemporary philosophical discourse.

Author : Graham Harman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748693474

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Quentin Meillassoux by Graham Harman Pdf

Along with Meillassoux's startling book on Mallarme's poem 'Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard,' Harman discusses several new English articles by Meillassoux, including his controversial April 2012 Berlin lecture and its critique of 'subjectalism'.

Author : Carol J. White,edited by Mark Ralkowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351878890

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Time and Death by Carol J. White,edited by Mark Ralkowski Pdf

In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin Heidegger's work which grows out of a new understanding of what he was trying to address in his discussion of death. Acknowledging that the discussion of this issue in Heidegger's major work Being and Time is often far from clear, White presents a new interpretation of Heidegger which short-circuits many of the traditional criticisms. White claims that we are all in a better position to understand Heidegger's insights after fifty years because they have now become a part of the conventional wisdom of common opinion. His view shows up in accounts of knowledge in the physical sciences, in the assumptions of the social sciences, in art and film, even in popular culture in general, but does so in ways ignorant of their origins. Now that these insights have filtered down into the culture at large, we can make Heidegger intelligible in a way that perhaps he himself could not. White presents the best possible case for Heidegger, making him more intelligible to those people with a long acquaintance with his work, those with a long aversion to it and in particular to those just starting to pursue an interest in it. White places the problems with which Heidegger is dealing in the context of issues in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, in order to better locate him for the more mainstream audience. The language and approach of the book is able to accommodate the novice but also offers much food for thought for the Heidegger scholar.

Author : Baylee Brits,Prudence Gibson,Amy Ireland
Publisher : Re.Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0980819792

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Aesthetics After Finitude by Baylee Brits,Prudence Gibson,Amy Ireland Pdf

Traditionally aesthetics has been associated with phenomenal experience, human apprehension and an appreciation of beauty--the domains in which human cognition is rendered finite. What is an aesthetics that might occur 'after finitude'?

Author : Quentin Meillassoux,Isaac Asimov
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781937561949

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Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction by Quentin Meillassoux,Isaac Asimov Pdf

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes place, and fiction outside-science, the literary concept he fashions in this book, a fiction in which science becomes impossible. With its investigations of the philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Popper, Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction broadens the inquiry that Meillassoux began in After Finitude, thinking through the concrete possibilities and consequences of a chaotic world in which human beings can no longer resort to science to ground their existence. It is a significant milestone in the work of an emerging philosopher, which will appeal to readers of both philosophy and literature. The text is followed by Isaac Asimov’s essay “The Billiard Ball.”

Author : David Farrell Krell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271029214

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Intimations of Mortality by David Farrell Krell Pdf

Heidegger&’s thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. &“The theme of mortality&—finite human existence&—pervades Heidegger&’s thought,&” in the author&’s words, &“before, during, and after his magnum opus, Being and Times, published in 1927.&” This theme is manifested in Heidegger&’s work not &“as funereal melodramatics or as despair and destructive nihilism&” but rather &“as a thinking within anxiety.&” & Four major subthemes in Heidegger&’s thinking are explored in the book&’s four parts: the fundamental ontology developed in Being and Time; the &“lighting and clearing&” of Being, understood as &“unconcealment&”; the history of philosophy&—with emphasis on Heraclitus, Hegel, and Nietzsche&—interpreted as the &“destiny&” of Being; and the poetics of Being, explicated as the &“fundamental experience&” of mortality. & Neither an introduction nor a survey, this book is a close reading of a wide range of Heidegger&’s books, lectures, and articles&—including extensive material not yet translated into English&—informed by the author&’s conversations with Heidegger in 1974&–76. Each of the four subthemes is treated critically. The aim of the book is to push its interrogations of Heidegger&’s thought as far as possible, in order to help the reader toward an independent assessment of his work and to encourage novel, radically conceived approaches to traditional philosophical problems.

Author : Rick Dolphijn,Iris van der Tuin
Publisher : Open Humanitites Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Materialism
ISBN : 1607852810

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New Materialism by Rick Dolphijn,Iris van der Tuin Pdf

Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101870402

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This Life by Martin Hägglund Pdf

Hägglund argues that a faith not in God or eternal life, but in the finite, temporal life we lead here on earth is one that gives that life far greater depth of meaning. In contrast to the traditional religious faith in eternity, he proposes a secular faith in the value of living in time. His book provides not only a critique of religious ideals, but also a positive, alternative understanding of the beliefs and values that can motivate us to live lives of meaning in the here and now. -- adapted from jacket

Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791425096

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Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues by Drew A. Hyland Pdf

This book explains how to read Plato, emphasizing the philosophic importance of the dramatic aspects of the dialogues, and showing that Plato is an ironic thinker and that his irony is deeply rooted in his philosophy.

Author : Rafael Winkler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350059375

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Philosophy of Finitude by Rafael Winkler Pdf

Examining the legacies of Heidegger, along with Derrida, Levinas and Nietzsche, Rafael Winkler argues that it is not the search for truth or even contradictions that stimulates philosophical thought. Instead, it is our exposure to the unthinkable or the impossible – to thought's own limits. An experience of the unthinkable is possible in our encounter with the uniqueness of death, the singularity of being, and of the self and the other. This 'thinking of finitude' also has political implications, as it provides us with a way to talk about, and evaluate, absolute strangeness and, by implication, the absolute stranger or foreigner. Illuminating Heidegger's writings on the question of ontology, ethics and history, Winkler proves that this encounter with thought's limits is one of the mainstays of the philosophies of difference of Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche.

Author : Quentin Meillassoux
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780983216926

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The Number and the Siren by Quentin Meillassoux Pdf

A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés.” A meticulous literary study, a detective story à la Edgar Allan Poe, a treasure-hunt worthy of an adventure novel—such is the register in which can be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Quentin Meillassoux, author of After Finitude, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés,” patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarmé's “unique Number.” The decisive point of the investigation proposed by Meillassoux comes with a discovery, unsettling and yet as simple as a child's game. The Number that “can be no other” can only be revealed to us via a secret code, hidden in the “Coup de dés” like a key that finally unlocks every one of its poetic devices. Thus is also unveiled the meaning of that siren, emerging for a lightning-flash amongst the debris of the shipwreck: as the living heart of a drama that is still unfolding. With this bold new interpretation of Mallarmé's work, Meillassoux offers brilliant insights into modernity, poetics, secularism, and religion, and opens a new chapter in his philosophy of radical contingency. The volume contains the entire text of the “Coup de dés” and three other poems, with new English translations.

Author : Anne O'Byrne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253004772

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Natality and Finitude by Anne O'Byrne Pdf

Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance, birth and action, embodiment, biological determinism, and cloning anchor this sensitive and powerful analysis. O'Byrne's thinking advances and deepens important discussions at the intersections of feminism, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and social and political thought.

Author : R. Brassier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230590823

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Nihil Unbound by R. Brassier Pdf

This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism.

Author : Quentin Meillassoux
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8857523861

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Time Without Becoming by Quentin Meillassoux Pdf

To use Alan Badiou's words, "It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." The present book, Time Without Becoming, is the text of a conference that Meillassoux gave at Middlesex University in London in May 2008. Following his seminal After Finitude, Meillassoux proceeds here to further explore his notion of absolute contingency, which is able to produce and destroy, without a reason, any becoming. In her contribution, Anna Longo challenges this idea by confronting Meillassoux's speculative materialism with emergentism.

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004502505

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Before Humanity by Stefan Herbrechter Pdf

The current crisis in thinking the “human” raises questions not only about who or what may come after the human, but also about what happened before. What dark secrets lie in our ancestral past that may be stopping us from becoming human “otherwise”?