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Neroplatonism

  • Scott Wilson (author)
Chapter of: Speculative Medievalisms: Discography(pp. 103–120)

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TitleNeroplatonism
ContributorScott Wilson (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.11
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculative-medievalisms/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightWilson, Scott
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2013-01-17
Long abstractIn a 2008 Times Literary Supplement review of Quentin Meil-lassoux’s After Finitude, the founding text of Speculative Ma-terialism, Simon Critchley takes Georges Bataille as an example of the worst excesses of “correlationism.” Critchley mentions a notorious late night conversation between Bataille and A.J. Ayer at which Merleau-Ponty and Giorgio Am-brosini, the physicist who influenced Bataille’s The Accursed Share, were also present. This conversation, which went on until 3 am, involved an argument as to whether or not you could say that the “sun existed before man.” Commenting on “the abyss that separates French and English philosophy,” Critchley writes: The thesis under discussion was very simple: did the sun exist before the appearance of humans? Ayer saw no reason to doubt that it did, whereas Bataille thought the whole proposition meaningless. For a philosopher committed to scientific realism, like Ayer, it makes ev-ident sense to utter ancestral statements such as “The sun existed prior to the appearance of humans,” whereas, for a correlationist like Bataille, more versed in Hegel and phenomenology, physical objects must be perceived by an observer in order to be said to exist.
Page rangepp. 103–120
Print length18 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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