Restlessness

inquiétude

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Summary

Dominique Pagani approaches restlessness (inquiétude) through the German word Unruhe, "non-rest". He notes that this term means both restlessness and the movement of a clock's pendulum1. This double meaning allows him to state that restlessness belongs to the essence of time2. As early as 2019, in a session devoted to Chateaubriand, he makes Unruhe the essence of anthropology: the awareness of death makes man an eternal migrant. He links this human restlessness, never satisfied, to the figure of Faust. In 2024, he stresses its creative character: to be restless is to go beyond the result already reached. He contrasts this movement with money, which locks people into habit3. From one session to the next, restlessness thus appears as a feature that belongs both to the human condition and to the very structure of time.

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Cycle 13 · 20 Sept 2024Sickness, misfortune, evil

1:26:43Unruhe, non-rest, designates in German both restlessness and the movement of a clock's pendulum.

Cycle 12 · 4 Jan 2024I am not who you think I am: the elusive identity

1:11:31Unruhe, non-rest, designates both restlessness and the movement of a clock: restlessness is of the essence of time.
1:14:14Human restlessness is creative: going beyond the result attained; money, by contrast, gets stuck in habit.

Cycle 5.2 · 26 Mar 2019#5.5 Nature or landscape?

26:12Unruhe, non-rest, is the essence of anthropology: the awareness of death makes man an eternal migrant.
48:24Faust embodies human unease, never satisfied.