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"La critique empiriste des prétentions universelles de la pensée humaine est-elle réellement fondée ? On sait que c'est le problème de Kant. Mais Quentin Meillassoux montre avec une force étonnante qu'une autre compréhension de cette critique, restée en quelque sorte dissimulée, bien que plus «naturelle», aboutit à un partage des ambitions de la pensée très différent de celui proposé par Kant. Il établit en effet qu'une seule chose est absolument nécessaire : que les lois de la nature soient contingentes. Ce noeud entièrement nouveau entre les modalités contraires installe la pensée dans un tout autre rapport à l'expérience du monde, un rapport qui défait simultanément les prétentions «nécessitantes» de la métaphysique classique, et le partage «critique» entre l'empirique et le transcendantal. Cette remarquable «critique de la Critique» est ici introduite sans fioritures, coupant vers l'essentiel dans un style particulièrement clair et démonstratif. Elle autorise à nouveau que le destin de la pensée soit l'Absolu, et non la «finitude» dans laquelle nous nous complaisons en laissant la morale, ou le «retour du religieux», servir de fictif supplément d'âme."

Contingency (Philosophy)

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Offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, plus his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognised.

Contingency (Philosophy)

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After the vehement critique of metaphysics in the twentieth century, ontology has again found its place at the center of continental philosophy. Yet this does not mean that the way in which metaphysics and ontology are understood has not been affected by these criticisms, the so-called “linguistic turn” of hermeneutics and deconstruction. In fact, as Gert-Jan van der Heiden demonstrates, the themes and concepts of contemporary continental metaphysics are highly influenced by the different versions of the account of classical metaphysics as ontotheology. Thus, contemporary thought seeks to recover a sense of the absolute, but without recourse to specifically theological underpinnings.Working largely with present-day thinkers who take seriously Heidegger’s critique of ontotheology—authors such as Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, Claude Romano, Quentin Meillassoux, and Giorgio Agamben­—van der Heiden returns with them to the question of ontology rather than rejecting the question altogether. As the book’s title suggests, he maps this contemporary debate in terms of three axes: plurality; the event and contingency; and, finally, an ethics proper to a thinking receptive to contingency.Rather than affirming either the speculative or the hermeneutic-phenomenological school of thought, van der Heiden shows how these schools, each in their own way, are concerned with similar themes and sources of inspiration. In particular, he assesses and critiques the ways in which philosophers today deal with these concepts to offer an alternative to ontotheology. The question of contingency, he argues, is the most challenging issue for present-day ontology, and ontology today can only be an ontology of contingency.

Ontology --- Metaphysics --- Contingency (Philosophy)

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Contingency (Philosophy) --- Metaphysics --- Ontology

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Contingency (Philosophy) --- Religion --- Philosophy