Después de Kant, ¿la posverdad? La ancestralidad y la metáfora en Quentin Meillassoux y Graham Harman

Abstract

Against Kantian ontology, and idealism in all its forms, Quentin Meillassoux proposes a return to absolute contingency beyond the unknowability imposed by the correlational circle, while Graham Harman, through aesthetics, invites us to recover the dignity of a reality that demands to be treated in an irreducible manner. In the face of the widespread use of new technologies of manipulation and propaganda, which have led to the exacerbation of surveillance and the distortion of truth to the point of its complete inadequacy with respect to reality, turning freedom into a myth, Meillassoux and Harman propose a 'recovery of realism', suggesting an unsubsumable and inappropriate exteriority, but expressed through mathematics and aesthetics. In this context we address the ancestral and metaphor as privileged avenues of philosophy. What political significance such suggestions have is difficult to asses at this stage. Their theoretical consequences are beyond the will of both authors.