After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency

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 return of religiosity in contemporary philosophical discourse.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

Author: Quentin Meillassoux
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 06/07/2008
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780826496744
ISBN10: 0826496741
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern

About the Author
Quentin Meillassoux teaches Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France.

Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works.

Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.