Genre

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani uses the term in several registers. In the logical sense, he opposes genus to species: refusing to rise to the genus means finding only apples or pears, never "fruit"1. For him, man is a genus and not a species. The animal is tied to a biotope, whereas man adapts the environment to the indeterminacy of his desire2. In art, he defines genre by external constraints, such as purpose or instrument. He distinguishes it from form, which organizes the work from within: the concerto is a genre invested in sonata form3. He links the separation of genres to classicism and to an almost caste-based society, and their fusion to romanticism and to the modernity that came out of the French Revolution4. This fusion, which Wagner practises, opens up new perspectives, but it is also a danger that haunts Hölderlin, Nerval and Nietzsche5. He adds that one does not choose the genre in which one writes, any more than one chooses one's sex or one's class6.

1. 1Hegel Plage 2/51 Feb 2016 · 1:01:16
2. 2La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 1:10:24
3. 3Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 12:49
4. 4Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 43:04
5. 5Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 1:01:10
6. 6#4.9 Angélique (de Nerval)14 Jun 2018 · 1:25:20

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