Rationalist Empiricism : A Theory of Speculative Critique PDF
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RATIONALIST EMPIRICISM RATIONALIST EMPIRICISM A THEORY OF SPECULATIVE CRITIQUE NATHAN BROWN Fordham University Press New York 2021 Copyright © 2021 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Visit us online at www .fordhampress .com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available online at https:// catalog .loc .gov. Printed in the United States of America 23 22 21 5 4 3 2 1 First edition for Petar Milat CONTENTS Introduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture 1 PART I Rationalist Empiricism 1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions 35 2. Althusser’s Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism 50 PART II Speculative Critique 3. Hegel’s Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics 73 4. Hegel’s Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism 90 PART III Science, Art, Structure 5. Hegel’s Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units 125 6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier 141 7. Where’s Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato’s Timaeus 166 Coda: Structure and Form 181 PART IV Theory and Praxis 8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction 185 9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality: From Althusser to Théorie Communiste 204 10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx 228 Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful 249 vii viii CONTENTS Acknowledgments 263 Notes 265 Works Cited 291 Index 301 Empiricism and rationalism are bound, in scientific thought, by a strange bond, as strong as that which unites pleasure and pain. —Gaston Bachelard, The Philosophy of No
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