Style is the man : Meillassoux, Heidegger, and finitude

Abstract

Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude, published in French in 2006 and translated into English in 2008, calls for a new style of philosophy, one that rejects the limiting legacy of Kantian critical philosophy and reinstates knowledge of the absolute as the proper aim of philosophical inquiry. It is a message that echoes loudly throughout the book, from the first paragraph, where Meillassoux makes it clear that “what is at stake . . . is the nature of thought’s relation to the absolute” (2008, 1), to the final line where he enjoins us to “reconcile thought and absolute” (128).