COMET IV: Quentin Meillassoux – After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency & selected readings from Graham Harman – Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making
Who: Researchers and (research) master students in philosophy or adjacent fields.
When: 15:00 – 17:00, November 1st ; 15:15 – 17:15, November 15th, 29th, December 13th
Where: On campus at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Precise location TBD
How: Each session discusses two book chapters, which participants read before convening.
Register by sending an email to . There is room for 12 participants (first come, first served)
Publisher’s blurb of After Finitude
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.
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.
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 COMET study group is convened by the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP) at Radboud University.
To register for this group, please contact the study group coordinator through the e-mail below.