#everattaining

wheres the best place to start?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7UgLoxVFEN4OXNDaHJlQmhqMWM

There’s a link to all the Meillassoux stuff I have, just so you can get it easily.

But I’d recommend starting with After Finitude and seeing if it still holds your interest after the first chapter (I know I was gripped when I read it). If that seems daunting or anything, I’d recommend his essay the Immanence of the World Beyond, which is kind of a re-presentation of his thoughts from After Finitude.

If you’re curious about the resurrection and Inexistent God stuff, then his essay The Spectral Dilemma would be a good place to go, along with the final chapter of Harman’s book on Meillassoux, Philosophy in the Making (included in the link above), which translates a large section of Meillassoux’s unpublished book where this all comes from called L’Inexistence Divine.

All the other stuff there is really good though, and I’d recommend it if any of these first sources pique your interest. Harman’s book might be a good starting place in general, since he does a (critical) overview of all of Meillassoux’s work, contrasting it with his own throughout to try and show what is worthwhile and speculative in Meillassoux’s thought.

does habermas consider himself a liberal?

Beyond the my stated faves (Chomsky, Mill, Rousseau, Rawls), check out Gar Alperovitz, Dean Baker, Chip Berlet, Isaiah Berlin, Matt Bruenig, John K. Galbraith, Henry George, Jurgen Habermas, Leonard Hobhouse, Richard Hofstadter, C. Wright Mills, Charles W. Mills, Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Paine, Barry Posen, Carlo Rosselli, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, James Tobin, Roberto Unger, Stephen Walt, and Cornel West. 

I threw in a couple of names of people who are fundamentally liberal and yet critical of liberalism in there btw. I also threw in a couple good economists and international relations thinkers, for good measure.

the undeniable correlation