After Finitude
Autor Quentin Meillassouxen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 apr 2008
Găsim în After Finitude un punct de cotitură radical pentru ontologia contemporană, debutând cu tema provocatoare a „ancestralității”. Quentin Meillassoux investighează modul în care știința poate vorbi despre obiecte și evenimente care au precedat apariția conștiinței umane (cum ar fi datarea izotopică a formării Pământului), punând astfel în dificultate dogma kantiană conform căreia nu putem cunoaște lumea decât prin prisma relației noastre cu ea. Apreciem rigoarea logică prin care autorul demontează ceea ce el numește „corelaționism”, oferind o alternativă la alegerea forțată între dogmatismul metafizic și criticismul sceptic. Structura cărții urmărește o progresie densă, de la definirea paradoxului ancestral la reevaluarea „Problemei lui Hume” și stabilirea „Principiului Factualității”. Această organizare indică o trecere de la deconstrucția fideismului post-kantian către o nouă alianță între filosofie și matematică. Lucrarea extinde cadrul propus de Ontology after Ontotheology de Gert-Jan van der van der Heiden cu date noi din perspectiva realismului speculativ, refuzând să accepte limitările impuse de „turnura lingvistică” a secolului XX. Dacă în contribuțiile sale din Collapse – Unknown Deleuze autorul explora limitele esteticii și metafizicii, aici el consolidează o poziție teoretică de sine stătătoare. Observăm că stilul lui Quentin Meillassoux evită obscuritatea tipică multor texte continentale, optând pentru o claritate ce amintește de tradiția analitică. Cartea nu este doar o critică a trecutului, ci o redeschidere a drumului către Absolut, eliberat de constrângerile finitudinii umane. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care urmăresc evoluția metafizicii după „moartea lui Dumnezeu”, oferind o bază teoretică solidă pentru ceea ce Graham Harman numește, în volumul său omonim Quentin Meillassoux, sfârșitul erei transcendentale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0826496741
Pagini: 158
Dimensiuni: 138 x 218 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Continnuum-3pl
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de viitorul filosofiei europene și de relația dintre știință și metafizică. After Finitude oferă un argument convingător împotriva ideii că lumea există doar „pentru noi”, redând gândirii capacitatea de a accesa realitatea obiectivă. Este o achiziție fundamentală pentru studenții și cercetătorii care doresc să înțeleagă bazele realismului speculativ și critica modernă a fideismului religios.
Despre autor
Quentin Meillassoux este un filosof francez contemporan, profesor la École Normale Supérieure (Ulm). Este considerat una dintre cele mai influente voci ale noii generații de gânditori continentali, fiind unul dintre fondatorii realismului speculativ. Lucrarea sa de debut, After Finitude (publicată inițial în limba franceză sub titlul „Après la finitude”), a fost primită cu entuziasm de figuri marcante precum Alain Badiou. Opera sa se concentrează pe depășirea limitelor corelaționismului și pe reabilitarea capacității rațiunii de a atinge absolutul prin intermediul matematicii și al logicii riguroase.
Descriere
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.
Cuprins
Preface by Alain Badiou
1. Ancestrality
2. Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
3. The Principle of Factuality
4. Hume's Problem
5. Ptolemy's Revenge
Recenzii
'An exceptionally clear and careful writer... Quentin Meillassoux launches a stinging attack upon the state of philosophy in general, and takes initial steps towards a form of speculative philosophy which, he thinks, overcomes the shortcomings he has identified.' - John Appleby, The Philosopher's Magazine, Issue 43, 4th Quarter 2008
"It's easy to see why Meillassoux's After Finitude has so quickly acquired something of a cult status among some readers who share his lack of reverance for 'the way things are'. The book is exceptionally clear and concise, entirely devoted to a single chain of reasoning. It combines a confident insitence on the self-sufficiency of rational demonstration with an equally rationalist suspicion of mere experience and consensus....[this] is a beautifully written and seductively argued book." - Peter Hallward, Radical Philosophy, 2008
"After Finitude will certainly play a central role in ongoing debates on the status of philosophy, on questions pertaining to epistemology and, above all, to ontology. It will not only be an unavoidable point of reference for those working on the question of finitude, but also for those whose work deals with political theology, and the status of the religious turn of philosophy. After Finitude will certainly become an ideal corrosive against too rigid assumptions and will shake entrenched positions." - Gabriel Riera, University of Illinois, Chicago, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2008
"There is something absolutely exhilarating about Meillassoux's argument, and it is not difficult to see why his book has already aroused so much interest. The exposition and critique of correlationism is brilliant and Meillassoux is at his best when showing the philosophical complacency of contemporary Kantians and phenomenologists. The proposal of speculative realism is audacious and bracing, particularly when he defends the idea of nature as a 'glacial universe', cold and indeifferent to humans. Such is Pascal's 'Eternal silence of infinite spaces', but without the consolation of a wager of God's existence. However, by Mellassoux's own admission, his proposal is incomplete and we await its elaboration in future books. Although, his style of presentation can turn into a sort of fine-grained logic-chopping worthy of Duns Scotus, the rigour, clarity and passion of the argument can be breathtaking." - Simon Critchley, TLS, Feb 2009
"Meillassoux addresses the question whether natural laws are necessary, and if so why, raised by Kant and gnawed by subsequent philosophers from Hume to Foucault. He offers a logical proof that the only feature of the laws of nature that is absolutely necessary is that they are contingent. He explores the ethical and metaphysical implications. Brassier translates Apres la finitude, which was published in 2006 by Editions du Seuil." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.
'A penetrating critique of the post-Kantian "correlationism" that has dominated philosophy on the European mainland over the last 250 years.' - Books of the Year, Times Literary Supplement
'Rarely do we encounter a book which not only meets the highest standards of thinking, but sets up itself new standards, transforming the entire field into which it intervenes. Quentin Meillassoux does exactly this.' Slavoj Zizek
'In his clearly argued essay, now available in an excellent English translation, the French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux shows that subjectivity and objectivity must be conceived of independently of each other ... It is a truly philosophical work in that it develops the original idea of a speculative materialism with uncompromising passion and great consistency.' Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
'You may entirely disagree with the author's solution (I do) but not with the courage with which he proposes to escape from the prison of discourse and to put the much abused metaphor of the Copernican Revolution right at last.' Bruno Latour
"Talented and exciting new voice in contemporary French philosophy"--Bookseller Buyers Guide