After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency

by Quentin Meillassoux

Ray Brassier (Translator) and Alain Badiou (Preface)

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Quentin Meillassouxs 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.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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0826496741
  • ISBN13 9780826496744
  • Publish Date 7 April 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 160
  • Language English