Series · 29 Jun 2022JOHN LEWIS - CLASSICAL OR JAZZ? • Pagani Parle Musique- 2:06Every new music has seemed unlistenable to its contemporaries, but one must not be too relativist: the avant-gardes of the twentieth century produce something new.
Relativist
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What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani approaches the relativist position mainly through cultural relativism, which he criticises. In a session devoted to Adotevi and Négritude, he points out its typical reflex: answering any statement with "but among the Bantu"1. In his view, this relativism claims that there is no truth and that all traditions must be respected, whereas some sorting has to be done2. When it comes to learning about beauty, it gives the illusion that one is free to love whatever one likes, while one is exposed to nothing but the music of the market3. When everyone shuts themselves up in their own subjectivity, no one owes anything to anyone and there is no longer any common heritage, which proves the capitalist world right4. He makes the same reservation about music: every new music seemed inaudible to its contemporaries, but one should not be too relativist, because the twentieth-century avant-gardes produce something new5.
- 1Négritude et négrologues / Adotevi par Pagani (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 30:03
- 2Monde d'avant, Monde d'après - 2e partie16 Jan 2021 · 46:05
- 3Education : le Beau s'apprend-il ?20 Jul 2018 · 3:54
- 4Education : le Beau s'apprend-il ?20 Jul 2018 · 45:31
- 5JOHN LEWIS - CLASSIQUE OU JAZZ ? • Pagani Parle Musique29 Jun 2022 · 2:06
Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Series · 29 Jun 2022JOHN LEWIS - CLASSICAL OR JAZZ? • Pagani Parle Musique
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The World Before, The World After - Part 2- 46:05Cultural relativism claims there is no truth and that all traditions must be respected; yet there is a sorting to be done.
Talks · 20 Jul 2018Education: can the Beautiful be learned?- 3:54Cultural relativism gives the illusion of freedom to love whatever one wants, while in fact one is brought into contact with nothing but market music.
- 45:31Each person shutting himself up in his own subjectivity means owing nothing to anyone and having no common heritage, which plays into the hands of the capitalist world.
Talks · 8 Jun 2017Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)- 30:03Culturalist relativism opposes to every assertion "but among the Bantu."