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Pagan Metaphysics is written by Paul Reid-Bowen, a lecturer in Philosophy and the Study of Religions at Bath Spa University (UK). His research and teaching interests encompass metaphysics, existentialism, feminist and ecological philosophy, and a number of new religious movements (notably feminist and nature religions). 09:47 About Me
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(title unknown) via enowning by enowning on 9/3/09 Simon Critchely explains Meillassoux.

For the English-speaking reader, the force of Meillassoux's polemic against correlationism requires some explanation... But what exactly is the problem with correlationism? Well, it is twofold. First, by denying thought any rational access to primary qualities or things in themselves, correlationism allows that space to be filled by any number of irrational discourses, such as religion. In a powerful critique of the theological turn in French phenomenology, for example in the work of Jean-Luc Marion, Meillassoux shows how the flip side of correlationism is fideism, that is, the rather vague discourse on the numinous that one finds in many followers of Heidegger, but also - it should be added - in Wittgenstein's curious remarks about the mystical towards the end of the Tractatus. Such is what Meillassoux calls "the religionizing of reason".