Contingency Without Unreason
Speculation After Meillassoux
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4923210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Ramey (Haverford College) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-46 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2014.920638 |
| OpenAlex | W2295417177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this essay I critique the identification of contingency with sheer arbitrary possibility in Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. After offering logical and metaphysical reasons for why such an identification is a limitation on the speculative potential of reason, I draw upon Charles S. Peirce, Gilles Deleuze, and Giambattista Vico to articulate the outlines of a view of contingency which can underwrite a different speculative position to one that is grounded upon an absolute of unreason. This form of speculation, a realism of contingency without an axiom of unreason, is indicated in outline by the structure of divination practices. I thus propose, without defending its actuality, at least the possibility of a divinatory form of speculation that is adequate to the absolute status of contingency.Keywords: contingencychancespeculationdivinationMeillassouxIbn SinaPeirceVicoDeleuze
Absolute (philosophy · Contingency · Economics · Epistemology · Identification (biology · Metaphysics · Realism · Speculation · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |