Ray Brassier
1965
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Biography
Ray Brassier is a British philosopher known for his work in the fields of speculative realism and contemporary continental philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick and has taught at American University of Beirut, the University of Middlesex, and the University of Aberdeen. Brassier's writings often explore themes of metaphysics, nihilism, and the intersection of philosophy and science.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Philosophy is concerned with encountering the most alien and impersonal truths.
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Nihilism is not an existential quandary but an inescapable consequence of disclosure, a complex of conceptual pressures responsive to a variety of intellectual, cultural, moral, and existential imperatives.
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The autonomy of the impersonal is manifest in the necessity it imposes on genuine thought to rise to the life of alien truths.
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Science is implicated in the process of reality degradation and breakdown of sense.
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What is at stake in the interrogation of reality is reality itself.