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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 ...
Christopher Watkin
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System and/as Contingency: Quentin Meillassoux and the Ethics of Chance
The Irish Journal of French Studies, 2017In 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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Speculative Justice: Quentin Meillassoux and Politics [PDF]
, 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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