Image

Summary

Dominique Pagani approaches the image from several angles. He first links it to language: philosophy, like everyday language, speaks through images, and metaphors contain what interests the philosopher, which the mathematician has to give up1. He then reports that Clouscard, against the Kantian antinomy of intuition and concept, posits an almost perfect adequacy between image and concept2. On the anthropological level, he sees the image function as a salient human trait: fantasy is a representation, and a monkey does not go into raptures over a photo of a banana3. He also stresses the limit of the image, which shows the here and now without the before, the after, the context or the causes, and which replaces discourse4. Finally, regarding Nerval's Sylvie, he describes as romantic the attitude of the narrator, who is in love with an image rather than with the real woman5.

1. 1M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)10 Sept 2019 · 1:08:47
2. 2M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)10 Sept 2019 · 1:12:10
3. 3Being born human is not enough to be human19 Jul 2021 · 16:00
4. 4#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge7 Apr 2022 · 2:31:14
5. 5Money, work, freedom3 Aug 2019 · 31:18

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