Hesitation

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani makes hesitation the theme of a cycle of sessions in 2022, which he links to decision. He specifies that he does not mean it in the psychological sense: it is a matter of hesitating out of scruple and humility, and of recognizing that one has gone down the wrong path1. In the subject, it reflects an inner contradiction, since one part of him wants to know and another does not2. He considers it immanent to philosophy, present from its Socratic origin and at each advance3. He describes it as a cursor that moves between two antagonistic, contradictory or dialectical poles45. He gives several examples: in Hölderlin and Baudelaire, between day and night; among the specialists confronting the Irhoud skull, between animal and human; in Perceval, between red and white. For Perceval, muteness and a tightened throat are avatars of hesitation, which becomes absolute under interrogation, to the point that he can no longer say his own name67.

1. 1Dialectiques de l'hésitation et de la décision13 Nov 2022 · 5:53
2. 2Et le sujet dans tout ça ? Hölderlin, Mallarmé et Baudelaire28 Sept 2022 · 26:42
3. 3Dialectiques de l'hésitation et de la décision13 Nov 2022 · 26:39
4. 4Dialectiques de l'hésitation et de la décision13 Nov 2022 · 1:02:11
5. 5L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 2:09:53
6. 6LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 45:44
7. 7L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 53:13

Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.