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This book is a thoughtful analysis of Seeming, which philosophy, from Plato on down to Heidegger and acolytes, has customarily opposed to Being, or to that which exists (the Real). Surprisingly, in affirming their identity, this essay advocates referring to the philosopher in whose work tradition attempted to find such a distinction for the first time: Parmenides.Yet it should be borne in mind that Plato was already calling his own philosophical endeavor, in the dialogue that he was devoting to Parmenides, a “parricide” of the latter. And a parricide it was indeed, since Plato was seeking, for essentially moral purposes, to associate existence not only with Being, but also with Otherness; i.e., that which does not exist. Paradoxically, today’s interpreters of Parmenides, in hopes of finding the latter before he was dethroned by Platonism, were not to be satisfied with the terse and outdated “what is, is” and claimed to detect in it a distinction between existence and Being, or between appearance and truth.Thus a parricide is unlikely to silence the Parmenidean dictum to welcome existence, inasmuch as the ritual is still commonly performed. Rather, this essay suggests to take an opposite approach.Philosopher and translator Santiago Espinosa (Mexico, 1978) was awarded CNL’s 2015 Cioran Scholarship. Encre Marine has already published his L’Inexpressif musical (2013), Voir et entendre (2016), Traité des apparences (2017), and L'Impensé (2019).

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Book category Books in French SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES

• Full title: L'Impense: Inactualite de Parmenide
• Author: Santiago Espinosa
• Language: French
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9782350881683
• ISBN: 2350881687
• ID: 24023814
• Publisher: ENCRE MARINE
• Weight: 372 g
• Date of publishing: 19. April 2019

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