... of “blessed ones” who live in friendship and therefore can communicate perfectly without being tampered by history or ideology. Augustine St Zambrano María Parmenides Valéry Paul Ortega y Gasset José Heidegger Martin Plotinus Diotima Parmenides Ulysses Paul Valéry María Zambrano We who ask...

...This chapter takes as its starting point a Greek sentence by the one whom Plato called “father Parmenides.” It shows that this sentence is the product of a series of interpretive operations whose ultimate achievement is, and is nothing but, translation. The most appropriate name for this series...