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With its investigations of the philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Popper, Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction broadens the inquiry that Meillassoux began in After Finitude, thinking through the concrete possibilities and consequences of a chaotic world in which human beings can no longer resort to science to ground their existence. It is a significant milestone in the work of an emerging philosopher, which will appeal to readers of both philosophy and literature. 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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.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 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50003317883153,"sku":"CIN0826496741VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50175335891217,"sku":"CIN0826496741G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52422628606225,"sku":"NLS9780826496744","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52877009682705,"sku":"GOR004179601","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826496741.jpg?v=1751460324"},{"product_id":"number-and-the-siren-book-quentin-meillassoux-9780983216926","title":"The Number and the Siren","description":"\u003cb\u003eA philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarme's poem\"Un Coup de Des.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eA meticulous literary study, a detective story la Edgar Allan Poe, a treasure-hunt worthy of an adventure novel-such is the register in which can be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Quentin Meillassoux, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Finitude\u003c\/i\u003e, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarme's poem \"Un Coup de Des,\" patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarme's \"unique Number.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe decisive point of the investigation proposed by Meillassoux comes with a discovery, unsettling and yet as simple as a child's game. The Number that \"can be no other\" can only be revealed to us via a secret code, hidden in the \"Coup de des\" like a key that finally unlocks every one of its poetic devices. Thus is also unveiled the meaning of that siren, emerging for a lightning-flash amongst the debris of the shipwreck- as the living heart of a drama that is still unfolding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith this bold new interpretation of Mallarme's work, Meillassoux offers brilliant insights into modernity, poetics, secularism, and religion, and opens a new chapter in his philosophy of radical contingency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume contains the entire text of the \"Coup de des\" and three other poems, with new English translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50051821699345,"sku":"GOR004775681","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53606131826961,"sku":"CIN0983216924VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0983216924.jpg?v=1751235833"},{"product_id":"nombre-et-la-sirene-book-quentin-meillassoux-9782213665917","title":"Le nombre et la sirène","description":"A family in a Wyoming camp copes with gossip amid the losses caused by their sudden removal and confinement. A World War I veteran reluctantly tells his granddaughter about his time overseas. A young boy acts as a translator between his mother and her doctor, trying and failing to convey the source of her pain. Sharon Hashimoto traces the costs of war and internment as felt across generations of Japanese Americans in stories that are vital to our understanding of our past-- and, urgently so, of our present. Stealing Home, the title of this stunning debut short story collection, is both an allusion to an American pastime and a searing condemnation of its history of forced internment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50482922717457,"sku":"GOR013803285","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50996291961105,"sku":"NIN9782213665917","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2213665915.jpg?v=1750805438"},{"product_id":"time-without-becoming-book-quentin-meillassoux-9788857523866","title":"Time Without Becoming","description":"To use Alan Badiou's words, It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy. The present book, Time Without Becoming, is the text of a conference that Meillassoux gave at Middlesex University in London in May 2008. Following his seminal After Finitude, Meillassoux proceeds here to further explore his notion of absolute contingency, which is able to produce and destroy, without a reason, any becoming. In her contribution, Anna Longo challenges this idea by confronting Meillassoux's speculative materialism with emergentism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51746036220177,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51746036416785,"sku":"CIN8857523861G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51871504892177,"sku":"GOR014438305","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788857523866.jpg?v=1750961734"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-quentin-meillassoux.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}