Quentin Meillassoux: A new French philosopher

Philosophy Today

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-117

  Harman, Graham ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

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EID: 60950072296     PISSN: 00318256     EISSN: 00318256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/philtoday200751163     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Quentin, Meillassoux, Après la finitude: Essai sur la nécessité de la contingence, with a Preface by Alain Badiou (Paris: Seuil, 2006.) All translations from the French are my own. Thanks are due to Ray Brassier of Middlesex University for numerous stimulating discussions of the book, and for drawing my attention to Meillassoux in the first place
2. Analogous sentiments can be found throughout Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern, trans. C. Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993)
3. Cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Gamma, section 4
4. Jean-René Vernes, Critique de la raison aléatoire, ou Descartes contra Kant, with a Preface by Paul Ricoeur (Paris: Aubier, 1982)
5. Steven Nadler, "'No Necessary Connection': The Medieval Roots of the Occasionalist Roots of Hume," The Monist 79 (1996): 448-66
6. Alain Badiou, Being and Event, trans. Oliver Feltham (London: Continuum, 2005)