Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Atheisms Today
- 1 The God of Metaphysics
- 2 The God of the Poets
- 3 Difficult Atheism
- 4 Beyond A/theism? Quentin Meillassoux
- 5 The Politics of the Post-Theological I: Justifying the Political
- 6 The Politics of the Post-Theological II: Justice
- General Conclusion: How to Follow an ‘Atheism’ That Never Was
- Bibliography
- Index
General Conclusion: How to Follow an ‘Atheism’ That Never Was
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Atheisms Today
- 1 The God of Metaphysics
- 2 The God of the Poets
- 3 Difficult Atheism
- 4 Beyond A/theism? Quentin Meillassoux
- 5 The Politics of the Post-Theological I: Justifying the Political
- 6 The Politics of the Post-Theological II: Justice
- General Conclusion: How to Follow an ‘Atheism’ That Never Was
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Was für eine Philosophie man wähle, hängt davon ab, was für ein Mensch man ist. Denn ein philosophisches System ist nicht ein toter Hausrat, den man ablegen könnte, wie es uns beliebt, sondern es ist beseelt durch die Seele des Menschen, der es hat.
Chaque penseur dogmatique, en vertu d'une fiction dont il est dupe, et dont le public a pris l'habitude, parle, enseigne et décrète en se targuant de l'autorité d'une raison impersonnelle et d'une indubitable aperception du vrai, comme si l'expérience ne nous avait point appris que cette prétendu raison se contredit d'un philosophe à l'autre, et que, tant vaut la direction morale et intellectuelle de la personne, tant vaut la pensée, ni plus ni moins.
We began this investigation by arguing that both imitative and residual atheisms are new moves in an old game and that their failure rigorously to think ‘after God’ is indicated by their systematic colonisation by ‘postsecular’ theologians. The implicit complicity of imitative atheism with the theological notions it explicitly rejects has been exposed (by Blanchot and others), and the asceticism of residual atheism, its ceding to theology of truth and goodness along with its Romantic inability to consummate the death of God, is lamented by Badiou and Meillassoux. As a recognition of and reaction to the inadequacy of both imitative and residual atheisms, it is our argument that a consensus has emerged around a desire to move beyond both parasitism and asceticism to a post-theological integration that cuts the theological root of parasitism without renouncing its fruit.
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- Difficult AtheismPost-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux, pp. 239 - 243Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011