Status Updates From Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis...

teaching myself metaphysics > taking a class with kraal

"The question that life asks thought is about necessity as transcendental contingency".

Fantastic stuff.

Amazing

Fantastic!

"In the end, Meillassoux's highly idiosyncratic approach fails to open up any prospect of real alterity. We were expecting an explosion. We were expecting a revolution - the revolution of the Copernican Revolution. But nothing changes. Nothing happens. Where's the surprise? Where's the metamorphosis? Above all, what's this 'after' that leaves everything untouched?". Boom.

Ahh, I'm loving the audacity of this book. Basically Malabou hitches the fate of the entire transcendental tradition - and continental philosophy itself - on the interpretation of a *single paragraph* in Kant's CPR - §27, regarding, in Kant's words, the "system of the epigenesis of pure reason". And if this is going where I think it is, Meillassoux is in for a hiding.

Just past the introduction and I'm absolutely, totally hooked. I've always thought of Derrida as the philosophical epigeneticist par excellence, so I'm itching to see - given Malabou's distance from him - just how she takes up the theme. Otherwise, she's so far trying to resolve the mystery of the status of the Kantian transcendental via epigenetic means - and I'm so, so on board with that.