After Finitude
by Quentin Meillassoux · first published 2008
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"After Finitude provides readings of the history of philosophy and sets out a critique of the unavowed fideism at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. Author Quentin Meillassoux introduces a 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."--Jacket.
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Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse. Being and Event by Alain Badiou (translated by Oliver Feltham). After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux (translated by Ray Brassier). Spring and All by William Carlos Williams.
on “Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?” ↗…imagination of most - Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard. At this time, it seemed definitively that this set of ideas this lot was on the way out. There was even a term for what was bad about them, as captured in After Finitude: An Essay On The Necessity Of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux: correlationism[1]. The idea that human thought never "got at" the truth because of intermediate cognitive or societal structures or biases.…
on “What comes after postmodernism?” ↗…belief systems are roughly analogous to saying "Everything happens for a reason", which is something you hear even intelligent people parrot in times of distress. But as Quentin Meillassoux argues in "After Finitude", the only truly universal law of metaphysics is in fact the negation of that platitude: "Things could be as they are, or they could be otherwise."
on “Birds Are Vanishing from North America” ↗