Parmenides

Ontological Figure, Being 1

Alain Badiou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2025
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-18094-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Alain Badiou is one of the most important philosophers of our time. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École normale supérieure 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.

Editors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou
Author’s General Preface to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain Badiou
Parmenides’s Subtractive Ontology: Introduction to Alain Badiou’s Parmenides: Being 1—Ontological Figures
About the 1985–86 seminar on Parmenides
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10
Session 11
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Seminars of Alain Badiou
Einführung	Kenneth Reinhard
Übersetzer	Susan Spitzer
Zusatzinfo	5 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-231-18094-2 / 0231180942
ISBN-13	978-0-231-18094-8 / 9780231180948
Zustand	Neuware