l'appel du vide

My philosophical project can be summarized in three theses, which I will begin by briefly formulating and then explicating:

1. The absolute is thinkable only by a refusal of the principle of reason. To put this in my own language: speculation, understood as thought about the absolute, is possible only by not being metaphysical.
2. The challenge of a revival of speculation is irreligion. I maintain that irreligion is possible only by being speculative – by being, therefore, thought about the absolute, and not a critique of absolutes. A symmetrical aspect of the second thesis is this: every critique of absolutes shares in an essential characteristic of modern religiosity, namely fideism.
3. Here we come to the object of our principal concern: the challenge of irreligion become speculative consists in an eschatology of immortality. I maintain therefore that the possibility of immortality is only thinkable by being irreligious, and that a true philosophy of immanence attains to this not by an idea of finitude but by an ethic of immortality. Another, more classical, way of formulating this thesis consists in affirming that philosophical irreligion is not a form of atheism, but rather the condition for an authentic access to the divine.

Quentin Meillassoux - The Immanence of the World Beyond