{"product_id":"parmenides-ontological-figure-being-1-9780231180948","title":"Parmenides: Ontological Figure, Being 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlain 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 \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlain 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 \u003ci\u003eImages of the Present Time\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and \u003ci\u003eThe One: Descartes, Plato, Kant\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSusan Spitzer is a frequent translator of Badiou's works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKenneth Reinhard is research professor of comparative literature and English at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276766642450,"sku":"9780231180948","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b04e60da-aabf-4e19-b5fb-3175c6c606e3.jpg?v=1747137745","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/parmenides-ontological-figure-being-1-9780231180948","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}