By Quentin Meillassoux
ISBN-10: 0826496741
ISBN-13: 9780826496744
After Finitude presents readings of the heritage of philosophy and units out a critique of the unavowed fideism on the center of post-Kantian philosophy. writer Quentin Meillassoux introduces a philosophical replacement to the pressured selection among dogmatism and critique. After Finitude proposes a brand new alliance among philosophy and technological know-how and demands an unequivocal halt to the creeping go back of religiosity in modern philosophical discourse
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We must bear in mind the apparently unanswerable force of the correlationist circle (contrary to the naïve realist), as well as its irremediable incompatibility with ancestrality (contrary to the correlationist). Ultimately then, we must understand that what distinguishes the philosopher from the non-philosopher in this matter is that only the former is capable of being astonished (in the strong sense) by the straightforwardly literal meaning of the ancestral statement. e. apparently unthinkable, yet true, and hence eminently problematic.
By the same token, since it would no longer be bound to knowledge by perceptual adumbration, and since the world for it would no longer be a horizon but rather an exhaustively known object, such a subject could no longer be conceived as a transcendental subject of the Husserlian type. But how do notions such as finitude, receptivity, horizon, regulative Idea of knowledge, arise? They arise because, as we said above, the transcendental subject is posited as a point of view on the world, and 24 A N C E S T R A L IT Y hence as taking place at the heart of the world.
The in-itself becomes opaque to the point where it is no longer possible to maintain that it exists, so that the term tends to disappear to the benefit of facticity alone. Facticity thereby forces us to grasp the ‘possibility’ of that which is wholly other to the world, but which resides in the midst of the world as such. Yet it is necessary to place inverted commas around the term ‘possibility’ insofar as what is operative in facticity is not knowledge of the actual possibility of the wholly other, but rather our inability to establish its impossibility.
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