Badiou's Parmenides

The plan for this Meetup is to discuss Alain Badiou's book on Parmenides (which is a transcription of a seminar given in 1985). I intend to cover the concepts in the book in a lecture style presentation for the first hour (or hour and a half, audience patience permitting) and then to turn to discussion. The intention is to cover the entire lecture series in one meeting--so try to read it if you can! I can't currently find a pdf or epub version that I can share.
This meetup continues a study of (Plato's) Parmenides which I ran from 2022 to 2024 (give or take). The focus of this Meetup will be primarily on Badiou's lectures and no other reading is required (nor, really, is reading the book, to be honest), but I (or others) may mention other interpretations of Parmenides or Plato's Parmenides.
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************************About the Book************************
From the advertising copy for the book: 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.