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La brecha del nuevo realismo. Quentin Meillassoux: un horizonte abierto

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This work addresses a philosophical approach that seeks to overcome a historical milestone in which philosophy has been influenced by the postmodernist movement since the 1970s. First, we analyze, from the epistemological level, the fundamental proposal of the ―new realism‖, which has developed a remarkable questioning of postmodernism.
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System and/as Contingency: Quentin Meillassoux and the Ethics of Chance

The Irish Journal of French Studies, 2017
In recent years, the relation between contingency and systematic claims to the absolute has again come to play an important role in Continental philosophy. This essay takes a closer look at how this relation is developed in the works of French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux. It argues that a specific demand for systematic knowledge underlies not only
Kevin Kennedy
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Quentin Meillassoux: Supreme Human Value Meets Anti-anthropocentrism

2016
This chapter continues exploring the contemporary permutations of the ‘host capacity’ account of humanity through a close reading of Quentin Meillassoux’s transformation of the human. The place of the human in Meillassoux’s thought is complex. On the one hand, he maintains a strong and consistent rhetoric of anti-anthropocentrism, and his fundamental ...
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Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies, 2019
Ben Woodard’s chapter inquires into how Michael Cisco’s articulation of the weird touches on the oblique construction that accompanies the narrative matter of text itself (how what is written accounts for the effect of being read). Rather than discussing written marks as a material affect, the matter of inscription will be analyzed as an imperfect ...
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Speculative Justice: Quentin Meillassoux and Politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
One of the reasons for the enthusiastic reception of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude is that the book seemingly allows us to disentangle metaphysics from politics. In this article I argue that this interpretation ignores the way in which Meillassoux positions his philosophy of contingency as a normative fusion of values and the real.
Coombs, Nathan
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