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Alexander
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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.
— Sep 28, 2017 12:52AM
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Alexander
is on page 90 of 224
"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.
— Oct 02, 2017 01:15AM
Alexander
is on page 20 of 224
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.
— Sep 26, 2017 07:27AM
