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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.
Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 11 · 12 Dec 2022Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval
Cycle 11 · 23 Nov 2022The aporias of anthropology
Cycle 11 · 13 Nov 2022Dialectics of hesitation and decision
Cycle 11 · 28 Sept 2022And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire