Скам’янілості французького спіритуалізму. Кантен Меясу – новий шлях в історії філософії?

Pavlo Bartusiak

doi:10.31649/sent44.02.122

Authors

Pavlo Bartusiak Lviv National Stepan Gzhytsky University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5009-467X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31649/sent44.02.122

Keywords:

Alain Badiou, Emile Boutroux, contingency, contemplation, speculative materialism

Abstract

Alain Badiou, in his “canonical” foreword to Quentin Meillassoux’s major work After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (Après la finitude: Essai sur la nécessité de la contingence, 2006), claims that Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy. In my opinion, this claim is highly exaggerated. I argue that main ideas of Meillassoux's speculative materialism – such as epistemological optimism, the reactivation of discourse on the absolute, radical anti-Platonism, critique of the principle of sufficient reason, and the contingency of being – had already been clearly articulated long before him by representatives of French spiritualism, a highly influential but now almost forgotten philosophical current in 19th-century France.

Author Biography

Pavlo Bartusiak, Lviv National Stepan Gzhytsky University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

PhD in Philosophy

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