Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome. Plato, Theaetetus 183e

Néstor-Luis Cordero is Emeritus Professor at the University of Rennes I. He is the author of Les deux chemins de Parménide and By Being, It Is: The Thesis of Parmenides (also available in Spanish as Siendo, se es: La tesis de Parménides).

One of the chief merits of this collection is its very strong emphasis on seminal issues of interpretation related to Parmenides’s poem. Throughout the volume, readers will find a significant engagement with Parmenides proper. JHP; Each of the sixteen principal speakers at the 2007 Symposium “Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome” organized by Néstor- Luis Cordero at the University of Buenos Aires “shared the distinction of having published at least one, if not several books on Parmenides” (xiii) and these papers—translated into English at the behest of Parmenides Publishing, a co-host of the conference (xi)—were originally delivered in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Some sense of the almost surreal intersection of Jorge Borges’ trans-historical imagination, the baffling richness of Parmenides’ own thought, and the polyglot cosmopolitanism of the Symposium itself can be had by reading “Parmenides and His Precursors: A Borgesian Reading of Cordero’s Parmenides” by Lucas Soares, one of eight supplemental papers by younger Argentinian scholars included in this handsome volume"". - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• Existence & Essence in Parmenides; From Being to the World & Vice Versa; Parmenides-Scholar of Nature; Parmenides Lost in Translation; The Astronomical Section in Parmenides' Poem; Parmenidean "Physics" is not Part of what Parmenides calls; Thought & Body in Parmenides; Mortals (Ppo-ro[) According to Parmenides; Parricide or Heir? Plato's Uncertain Relationship to Parmenides; Parmenides, Early Greek Astronomy, & Modern Scientific Realism; Parmenides & the Forms; What is Parmenides' Being?; Ta Semata: On a Genealogy of the Idea of Ontological Categories; The Role of "Thought" in the Argument of Parmenides' Poem; Parmenides: Logic & Ontology; Parmenidean Dualisms; Persuasion & Deception in Gorgias' Encomium to Helen; Thought as Perception: Aristotle's Criticism of Parmenides in Metaphysics IV, 5; The Father & the Sophist: Platonic Parricide in the Statesman; "Thinking That I Did Something...": Apollodorus & Diotima's Teaching; Megaric Philosophy Between Socrates' Influence & Parmenides' Ghost; Plato's Sophist on Negation & Not-Being; Parmenides & His Precursors: A Borgesian Reading of Cordero's Parmenides; Aristotle on the Semantic Unity of the Parmenidean Being; Index Locorum; General Index; Index of Greek Terms Discussed.