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Parmenides: Ontological Figure, Being 1

Name: Parmenides: Ontological Figure, Being 1
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Contributors:

Alain Badiou, Kenneth Reinhard (Introduction by), Susan Spitzer (Translator)

Publisher:

Columbia University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Philosophy

Book Subcategory:

Individual Philosophers, Metaphysics, History & Surveys

Book Topic:

Ancient & Classical

Series:

Seminars of Alain Badiou

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Release Date:

2025-05-20

ISBN 13:

9780231180948

Weight:

0.97 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.60 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

272

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Alain Badiou's 1985 seminar on Parmenides initiated his ongoing dialogue with the pre-Socratic philosopher and set out some of the foundational ideas of his own major philosophical works, including Being and Event. The seminar provides both a new understanding of the importance of Parmenides in establishing the fundamental terms of philosophy and a vital account of the intimate relationship between philosophy and mathematics.

For Badiou, Parmenides inaugurates the history of philosophy by linking being, thinking, and nonbeing in a "Borromean knot"--a linkage in which the relationship between any two terms requires the mediation of a third. Badiou traces the permutations of this connection among fundamental concepts as it was transmitted to later thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, and Heidegger. He also argues that Parmenides's account of philosophy establishes a new kind of formal reasoning that, like mathematics, breaks with the Greek mythic and poetic traditions and their assumption that truth derives from sensory experience. This seminar demonstrates Badiou's unparalleled ability to recast the fundamental questions of philosophy.

About the Author

Alain Badiou is one of the most important philosophers of our time. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the ?cole normale sup?rieure in Paris. His seminars published by Columbia University Press include Images of the Present Time (2023) and The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant (2023).

Susan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiou's works.

Kenneth Reinhard is research professor of comparative literature and English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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