Seuil lordre philosophique meillassoux quentin 2007 potentiality and virtuality. A dissolved ontological problem humes problem, that is to say, the problem of the grounding of causal connection, has known the fate of most ontological problems. Quentin meillassoux s speculative materialism aims to define access to reality of the natural world apart from its giveness to sentient subjects. He teaches at the universite paris 1 pantheonsorbonne, and is the son of the anthropologist claude meillassoux. Quentin meillassoux time without becoming by jbfb issuu. Quentin meillassoux, potentiality and virtuality, dans collapse ii. Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. Excerpt humes problem, that is to say, the problem of the grounding of causal connection, has known the fate of most ontological problems. October 28 potentiality and virtuality quentin meillassoux, from. The introduction discusses this older, more philosophical sense of virtuality and related recent scholarship, and concludes with chapter summaries. Quentin meillassoux has been described as the most rapidly prominent french philosopher in the anglophone world since jacques derrida in the 1960s. If presented there arguments based on concepts of archefossil and ancestrality, contingency, factiality and unreason are valid and refute the fundamental thesis of correlationism impossibility to access the reality outside correlation between thinking and being then we should be able to exceed it form the scientific ground it.
Alberto toscano, against speculation, or, a critique of the critique of critique. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Thus nelson goodman, in a famous article, can affirm without hesitation the dissolution of the old problem of induction. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. The law of ecomin and the shacles of sufficient reason facticity, factiality, and the principle of unreason the basic characteristics of meillassoux s speculative materialism, as laid out in after finitude have been covered at great length elsewhere, especially given the attention paid to socalled speculative realism as a more general intellectual movement albeit one disavowed by most of. In a sense, garb was asking for a greater synthesis of the analog and the digital, a synthesis that is captured in the original definition of the term virtuality.
An essay on the necessity of contingency, placing it within recent discussions of the relationship between science, philosophy and the humanities. View quentin meillassoux research papers on academia. Meillassoux s attempt to secure the absolute and necessity hinges on what he calls the principle of factiality, in french le factual. Facing the archefossil interview graham harman on vicarious causation paul churchland demons get out. The concept of biopolitics carried forth from the work of michel foucault informs many of his writings.
Probing the archefossil by roberto trotta on vicarious causation by graham harman demons get out. Two years later, latour provided a largely positive back jacket endorsement for meillassoux s debut book after finitude. E d i n b u r g h t h e m e i l l a s s o u x d i c t i o n a r y p e t e r g r a t t o n a n d p a u l j. Pdf quentin meillassoux s call for realism is a call for a new interest in the earth as uncorrelated being in philosophy. Quentin meillassoux spectral dilemma benjamin noys horror temporis iain hamilton grant todosch being and slime. Lovecraft and husserl singular agitations and a common vertigo. Pdf meillassoux, potentiality and virtuality ben epstein. We have at our disposal the means to reformulate humes problem without abandoning the ontological perspective in favour of the epistemic perspective largely dominant today. With the publication of after finitude 2006, this daring protege of alain badiou became one of the worlds most visible younger thinkers. Topics meillassoux, quentin, potentiality, virtuality, potentiality and virtuality, potentialit.
Apocalypse in the wake of refractory impossibility by reza negarestani. Urbanomic meillassoux quentin 2007 subtraction and contraction. Nonphilosophy and materialism 237 francois laruelle, translated by taylor adkins 17 the ontic principle. The work of quentin meillassoux set out in after finitude is an. A dissolved ontological problem the problem that hume bequeathed to modern philosophy of grounding causal connections has basically been abandoned because of the persistent failures to solve it. Reassesses the term atheism in the context of contemporary french philosophy. Quentin meillassoux potentiality and virtuality roberto trotta dark matter. Meillassoux is a former student of the philosophers bernard bourgeois fr and alain badiou. Citations from ray brassiers translation of after finitude. The paper focuses on quentin meillassoux s after finitude.
Quentin meillassoux appear courtesy of meillassoux himself. Harmans beautifully written and argued book provides not just an introduction to meillassoux, but much more. Time without becoming quentin meillassoux download. Quentin meillassoux s entry into the philosophical scene marks the beginning of a new epoch. A remark on quentin meillassoux s after finitude after colletti, in the speculative turn continental materialism and realism, l. The book presents a strong critique of the linguistic turn in continental and. Drawing primarily on the work of alain badiou, jeanluc nancy and quentin meillassoux, watkin explores posttheological reassessments of atheism through the ideas of the death of god and nihilism in contemporary french philosophy, and probes the limits of any atheistic politics. An indepth study of the emerging french philosopher quentin meillassoux in this expanded edition of his landmark 2011 work on meillassoux, graham harman covers new materials not available to the anglophone reader at the time of the first edition. For example, nelson goodman declared the dissolution of the old problem of induction. An essay on the necessity of contingency, preface by alain badiou, trans. E n n i s the meillassoux dictionary edited by peter gratton and paul j. Quentin meillassoux, divine inexistence and split rationality.
A master argument from towards speculative realism 55. Latours initial enthusiastic remarks about meillassoux can be found in harman, quentin meillassoux, 2. These pages were sent by meillassoux to translator ray brassier in french during the translation process, and do not appear in the original french version of the book. Collapse ii potentiality and virtuality quentin meillassoux 1. This is an essay on quentin meillassoux recent book after finitude. Meillassoux also spoke kind words about latour to me in person, though a sample of his mostly critical attitude in. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. This world apart is designated by meillassoux as the great outdoors which was marginalized as a topic of philosophy after kants critiques.
Quentin meillassoux s contribution to the speculative turn. Quentin meillassoux pronounced mayyuhsue, an emerging french thinker of the greatest interest. Several of meillassouxs articles have appeared in english via the british philosophical journal collapse, helping to spark interest in his. However, one common thread running through the new brand of continental positions is a renewed attention to materialist and realist options. Humes problem, that is to say, the problem of the grounding of. In this book, his fellow speculative realist, graham harman. Apocalypse in the wake of refractory impossibility kristen. Meillassoux s factial must a secure a notion of eternal necessity, while b excluding any necessary being id 283, because any recourse to a necessary being is a religious move. Potentiality and virtuality by quentin meillassoux dark matter. The mathematics of protoplasm in lorenz okens physiophilosophy drawings steven shearer poems graham harman keith tilford on the horror of phenomenology. Meillassoux was born in paris in 1967, the son of the anthropologist claude meillassoux 19252005, a household name among africanists. Potentiality and virtuality philosophical notebooks. Chapter from collapse volume ii, published by urbanomic.
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