The Contingency of Necessity by Tritten, Tyler;

Short description:

Focusing on the central striking claim that all necessity is consequent. Tritten engages with ancient and contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He argues that even reason and God, while necessary according to essence, are contingent in existence.

Long description:

Focusing on the central striking claim that there is something rather than nothing – that all necessity is consequent – Tritten engages with a wide range of ancient as well as contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He examines the ramifications of this truth arguing that even reason and God, while necessary according to essence, are utterly contingent with respect to existence.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: An Attempt at a Speculative Ontology or An Alternative to Possible-God Theologies

Part I: Critical and Constructive Preliminaries: Meillassoux, Boutroux and the Early Schelling

1. Meillassoux Against the Principle of Reason: An Ontology of Factiality

2. Boutroux’s Alternative: An Ontology of the Fact

3. On the Primacy of Matter: Neoplatonism Right-Side Up

Part II. Contingent Reason and a Contingent God: The Late Schelling and the Late Heidegger

4. Reason as Consequent Universal: On Thinking and Being

5. Decision and Withdrawal: On the Facticity and Posteriority of God

6. Event and De-cision: Towards an Appropriation of Heidegger’s Last God

Part III. Application and Concluding Remarks

7. A Response to Old Riddles and a New Typology: On the Euthyphro Dilemma and Theomonism

Afterword

Index