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Parmenides: Ontological Figure, Being 1

By (author) Alain Badiou, Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard, Translated by Susan Spitzer

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Alain Badiouâ€™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 â€œBorromean knotâ€â€”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 Parmenidesâ€™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 Badiouâ€™s unparalleled ability to recast the fundamental questions of philosophy.

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