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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani does not conceive of the present as a fixed point. Following Hegel, he stresses that the now "is already no longer when it is": it cannot be fixed, it is a negativity1. For him, the instant is not a point in space but a disappearance in time2. He describes the present as an edge between a past that is slow to flee and a future that is slow to emerge3. Hence the formula "there is no present": whoever proclaims himself his own contemporary conceals the gap between a past that has ceased and a future that is slow in coming4. From Proust he draws the persistence of the past in the present: the sobs of childhood have never ceased and make themselves heard again when life falls silent5. He also notes that whatever the starting point, a text or a musical example, one falls back on the most burning current events6.

1. 19 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021 · 29:03
2. 2La matrice de toute illusion : le passé vécu comme présent4 Jun 2024 · 1:26:53
3. 3#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 2:11:32
4. 4La laïcité, vérité de la religion ?18 Feb 2024 · 1:26:56
5. 5La matrice de toute illusion : le passé vécu comme présent4 Jun 2024 · 2:28:37
6. 6#0 - Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude26 Mar 2020 · 6:49

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