By Quentin Meillassoux
From the preface through Alain Badiou:
It is not any exaggeration to claim that Quentin Meillassoux has spread out a brand new direction within the background of philosophy, understood right here because the heritage of what it really is to understand ... This notable "critique of critique" is brought the following with no embellishment, slicing instantly to the center of the problem in a very transparent and logical demeanour. It permits the future of regarded as absolutely the as soon as more.
"This paintings is among the most vital to seem in continental philosophy in recent times and merits a large readership on the earliest attainable date ... Après la finitude is an incredible booklet of philosophy via an authnted rising voices in continental idea. Quentin Meillassoux merits our shut consciousness within the years yet to come and his e-book merits quick translation and frequent dialogue within the English-speaking global. there's not anything like it."
―Graham Harman in Philosophy Today
Quentin Meillassoux's impressive debut makes a strikingly unique contribution to modern French philosophy and is determined to have an important impression at the way forward for continental philosophy. Written in a mode that marries nice readability of expression with argumentative rigour, After Finitude provides daring readings of the background of philosophy and units out a devastating critique of the unavowed fideism on the middle of post-Kantian philosophy.
The unparalleled lucidity and the centrality of argument in Meillassoux's writing may still attract analytic in addition to continental philosophers, whereas his critique of fideism should be of curiosity to somebody preoccupied by means of the relation among philosophy, theology and faith.
Meillassoux introduces a startlingly novel philosophical substitute to the pressured selection among dogmatism and critique. After Finitude proposes a brand new alliance among philosophy and technological know-how and demands an unequivocal halt to the creeping go back of religiosity in modern philosophical discourse.
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