Ni Dieu ni le Hasard. Une critique immanente de la métaphysique de Marcel Conche

Abstract

By placing "creative Chaos" at the origin of all things, Conche's metaphysics of Nature deliberately opposes all theistic metaphysics. Yet, according to Conche, "philosophy does not abolish the divine." The aim of this essay is twofold: first, to better understand the meaning of the notion of the divine in Conche's work, and second, to evaluate its coherence within the broader framework of his metaphysics of Chaos. The thesis defended here is that these two elements of his thought are in fact incompatible. Conche's journey towards an alternative understanding of the divine — mystical rather than ontotheological — should have led him to abandon the Nietzschean thesis that Nature is Chaos (Chaos sive Natura), which itself remains trapped within ontotheology.