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  • Hardcover: 148 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (3 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0826496741
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826496744
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 68,828 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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"'Rarely do we encounter a book which not only meets the highest standards of thinking, but sets up itself new standards, transforming the entire field into which it intervenes. Quentin Meillassoux does exactly this.' --Slavoj Zizek"

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Quentin Meillassoux, a former student of Alain Badiou, is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting new voices in contemporary French philosophy.Quentin Meillassoux's 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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Meillassoux's After finitude, 2 Jul 2009
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This is a very recent book setting out Quentin Meillassoux's new philosophy which explains how we can know anything about events before there were any humans or after they have all become extinct, which he considers to be a problem. He solves it by, he believes, proving that everything is contingent, that is happens for no reason and not subject to any laws of nature which he believes don't exist. He is attacking such philosophies as phenomenalism which believe that all reality requires human or other perception to exist at all. He is very learned and argues very cogently for his philosophy but I think that Anglo-saxon philosophers will not see what he regards as a problem as really being one requiring dispensing with all natural laws.
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