Escape

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani treats escape as a defining feature of modernity: to be modern is to spend one's time wanting to escape from modernity, and this begins with Rousseau1. He describes it as a passion born with Romanticism to negate modernity, which consists in never being here and now, facing the real problem2. He sees it as a key to reading the period, which sets a literature of action against a literature of escape3. He traces its forms: going to the countryside means escaping while taking one's world along4; in Novalis, escape passes through sleep, alcohol, opium and the Virgin, what would later be called artificial paradises5. In Rimbaud, it no longer takes place in moonlight but in the thirst for knowledge6. Finally, he regards it as a key word of Symbolism, where escaping becomes the invitation to the voyage7.

1. 1#5.4 Introduction / Nature ou Paysage ?25 Jan 2019 · 22:43
2. 2#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 1:02:48
3. 3Dominique Pagani - Qui se cache sous les surfaces ? Esthétique et politique20 May 2022 · 21:49
4. 4#5.4 Introduction / Nature ou Paysage ?25 Jan 2019 · 32:40
5. 5Dominique Pagani - Qui se cache sous les surfaces ? Esthétique et politique20 May 2022 · 40:10
6. 6#5.4 Introduction / Nature ou Paysage ?25 Jan 2019 · 1:11:13
7. 7Flagrandélices27 May 2025 · 55:03

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