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The law of becoming and the shackles of sufficient reason in Quentin Meillassoux

The law of becoming and the shackles of sufficient reason in Quentin Meillassoux
The law of becoming and the shackles of sufficient reason in Quentin Meillassoux
Examining the concept of ‘hyper-chaos’ - a time beyond time, not of perpetual becoming, but of lawless creation and destruction, premised upon an abandonment of the principle of sufficient reason - as described in the work of French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux, this article contends that Meillassoux is unable to coherently posit the principle of unreason upon which his philosophy hinges.
continental philosophy, speculative realism, Quentin Meillassoux
1834-3287
161-173
Sutherland, Thomas
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Sutherland, Thomas
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Sutherland, Thomas (2014) The law of becoming and the shackles of sufficient reason in Quentin Meillassoux. Parrhesia, 21, 161-173.

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Examining the concept of ‘hyper-chaos’ - a time beyond time, not of perpetual becoming, but of lawless creation and destruction, premised upon an abandonment of the principle of sufficient reason - as described in the work of French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux, this article contends that Meillassoux is unable to coherently posit the principle of unreason upon which his philosophy hinges.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 May 2014
Published date: 5 December 2014
Keywords: continental philosophy, speculative realism, Quentin Meillassoux

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Local EPrints ID: 495035
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/495035
ISSN: 1834-3287
PURE UUID: 7260de4a-e294-4c19-834a-9bbbeaadd0fc
ORCID for Thomas Sutherland: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1538-7044

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Last modified: 29 Oct 2024 03:12

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Author: Thomas Sutherland ORCID iD

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