有限性之后
After Finitude
Quentin Meillassoux · 初版 2008 年
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“《After Finitude》对哲学史进行了解读，并对后康德哲学核心中隐匿的信仰主义提出了批判。作者 Quentin Meillassoux 在教条主义与批判哲学的非此即彼之间提出了一种全新的哲学替代方案。《After Finitude》主张在哲学与科学之间建立新的同盟，并呼吁坚决遏制当代哲学话语中宗教性的死灰复燃。”——封套简介。
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James P. Carse 写的《Finite and Infinite Games》。Alain Badiou 写的《Being and Event》（Oliver Feltham 英译）。Quentin Meillassoux 写的《After Finitude》（Ray Brassier 英译）。William Carlos Williams 写的《Spring and All》。
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse. Being and Event by Alain Badiou (translated by Oliver Feltham). After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux (translated by Ray Brassier). Spring and All by William Carlos Williams.
……占据了绝大多数人的想象力——德里达、福柯、利奥塔。在那个时候，这套思想体系似乎注定要走向末路了。甚至还有一个专门的词来形容它们的问题所在，就出自 Quentin Meillassoux 的《After Finitude: An Essay On The Necessity Of Contingency》：关联主义（correlationism）[1]。这种观点认为，由于中间认知或社会结构亦或偏见的存在，人类思想永远无法“触及”真理。……
…imagination of most - Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard. At this time, it seemed definitively that this set of ideas this lot was on the way out. There was even a term for what was bad about them, as captured in After Finitude: An Essay On The Necessity Of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux: correlationism[1]. The idea that human thought never "got at" the truth because of intermediate cognitive or societal structures or biases.…
……这些信仰体系大致就相当于在说“万事皆有因”，这种陈词滥调哪怕是聪明人在遭遇困境时也会跟着鹦鹉学舌。但正如 Quentin Meillassoux 在《After Finitude》中所论证的那样，唯一真正普适的形而上学法则实际上正是对这种陈词滥调的否定：“事物可以是现在的样子，也可以是另一种样子。”
…belief systems are roughly analogous to saying "Everything happens for a reason", which is something you hear even intelligent people parrot in times of distress. But as Quentin Meillassoux argues in "After Finitude", the only truly universal law of metaphysics is in fact the negation of that platitude: "Things could be as they are, or they could be otherwise."