Determinability

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani distinguishes determinability from determination. Determinability is the recognition that chance is ruled out, even though the cause is not yet known. To illustrate it, he returns several times to the figure of the detective-novel investigator: the investigator notices objects that have been moved, or senses that someone has been there, without yet being able to say who12. In 2021 he presents the notion as the conclusion of a phenomenalist approach: what is there cannot be due to chance, although the determination remains unknown3. He applies it to Nerval: the superimposition of Angélique and Aurélia makes determinability impossible to deny. It remains to be seen whether the determination is libidinal, one of class, or both4. On the terminological level, he sees the word as a translation of the Hegelian Bestimmtheit. He prefers it to "déterminité" because the suffix expresses the capacity to be determined5.

1. 1#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 1:22:33
2. 2#16 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 Jul 2020 · 33:58
3. 39 #23 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss9 Jun 2021 · 37:58
4. 49 #23 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss9 Jun 2021 · 1:20:07
5. 59 #23 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss9 Jun 2021 · 2:09:16

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