Contingency of Necessity

Tyler Tritten is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. He received his Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium in 2012 and later spent two years (2015-2016) as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Theology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His publications focus on speculative philosophy in areas of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, non-prescriptive ethics and the history of philosophy. He is the author of Beyond Presence: The Late F. W. J. Schelling’s Criticism of Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2012) and co-editor of a special issue of the journal Angelaki: Nature, Speculation and the Return to Schelling (Vol. 21.4, 2017).

This is a difficult but important work for those researching in these areas. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Introduction: An Attempt at a Speculative Ontology or An Alternative to Possible-God TheologiesPart I: Critical and Constructive Preliminaries: Meillassoux, Boutroux and the Early Schelling1. Meillassoux Against the Principle of Reason: An Ontology of Factiality2. 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 Heidegger4. Reason as Consequent Universal: On Thinking and Being5. Decision and Withdrawal: On the Facticity and Posteriority of God6. Event and De-cision: Towards an Appropriation of Heidegger’s Last GodPart III. Application and Concluding Remarks 7. A Response to Old Riddles and a New Typology: On the Euthyphro Dilemma and TheomonismAfterwordIndex