After finitude : an essay on the necessity of contingency /

Meillassoux, Quentin, 1967-

After finitude : an essay on the necessity of contingency / Quentin Meillassoux ; translated by Ray Brassier. - viii, 148 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ancestrality -- Metaphysics, fideism, speculation -- The principle of factiality -- Hume's problem -- Ptolemy's revenge.

"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.


Translated from the French.

0826496741 9780826496744 1441173838 9781441173836

2007037030


Philosophy, French--21st century
Faith and reason
Philosophy and science.

B2433.M453 / A6713 2008

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