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Dominique Pagani takes up the distinction between space, the order of simultaneities, and time, the order of successions1. From it he draws the opposition between the plastic arts and music, though he considers this opposition in need of nuance. He makes Lévi-Strauss's formula, according to which music, like myth, "enters time only to leave it", the essence of all music: musical time suspends the time of worries and makes something outside time last2 3. He distinguishes the predictable, circular time of destiny, which he calls a false time, from human time, which is blurred by freedom4. On the philosophical level, he recalls that with Kant time becomes the a priori form of all intuitions, and that Hegel defines time as he defines man: "the concept itself existing"5. He also links the awareness of time to desire and lack, and describes happiness as a day "made long", a dilation of the present.

Summary produced automatically from 38 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Talks · 29 May 2023From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment

58:26Time is needed to reach enjoyment: detour, obstacles, temporal thickness; "money is time."
1:41:25Twelve hours are worth centuries: happiness is measured by a day one has known how to make long.

Cycle 11 · 23 Nov 2022The aporias of anthropology

1:20:15Hegel defines man and time in the same way, as the concept itself existing; the hard sciences, on the contrary, seek to eliminate time.

Cycle 11 · 14 Oct 2022Clouscard and the problem of Socrates

1:13:57No instant is "at the same time": we are in the flux, which allows contradiction without the contradictory.
1:26:37With Kant, time becomes the primary constitution of the subject, the a priori form of all sensations.
1:32:24Music, having no spatial dimension, shows the link between temporality and interiority.

Series · 3 Aug 2022Schubert: the divine captives

0:00According to Lévi-Strauss's formula, music only enters into time in order to leave it: this is the essence of all music.
3:33Musical time suspends the time of worries that carries us toward the future: paradoxically, time makes out-of-time duration last.

Series · 23 May 2022Introduction to the podcast

1:07Music is an art of time: at 10:00 and at 10:06, in a symphony, the same things are not happening.

Cycle 10 · 3 Nov 2021#10.4 From Lascaux to modern music, the permanence of the political stakes in aesthetics

47:18The plastic arts unfold in space, music in time.
2:04:27Time is the element of music as water is that of fish: every sound must last.

Cycle 9.2 · 30 Jun 2021#9.24 “Ruled like music paper!” Nerval, Baudelaire (part 2)

44:30The dream runs counter to the irreversibility of time: simultaneity, the opposite of succession, keeps the past present.

Cycle 9.2 · 9 Jun 2021#9.23 “Ruled like music paper!” Bach, Nerval, Lévi-Strauss

27:35Notated music unfolds on the axis of pitch and the axis of duration, both quantifiable; music paper already divides time.
1:41:59Time is the order of successions, space that of simultaneities, partes extra partes.
2:05:13Myth and music require a temporal dimension, unlike painting where everything is given at once.

Cycle 9.2 · 3 Apr 2021#9.18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation

50:37The Norns' scene unfolds outside time, in a circular time, that of fate.
56:47The Norns embody time as eternity on the edge of fracture and as passage: past, present, future.

Series · 7 Feb 2021#14 Mozart once more

14:01Music, like myth, enters time only to exit it; the predictable time of fate is a false time, human time is scrambled by freedom.
1:38:29The day "made long" shows the temporal dilation of happiness, whose present opens onto the future.

Series · 17 Dec 2020#7 The Greeks, myth and music

27:05According to Lévi-Strauss, music, like myth, enters time only to leave it.
52:57Listening to music plunges one into a temporal depth.

Cycle 9.1 · 10 Dec 2020#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia…

47:43Consciousness of time is linked to desire; time seems long when we are in want.
1:31:42Space is the site of simultaneities, time that of successions; Proustian ecstasies place one in two instants at once.

Cycle 7 · 18 Apr 2020#5 Harnessed to confinitude

1:00:08Temporality is the invariant of the metaphors of the fountain, the music and the bells: all of it flows.

Cycle 7 · 27 Mar 2020#1 Harnessed to confinitude

20:04Profound theme of "La Beauté": wanting to stop time, to immobilize it in a plastic instant.
46:28Music and poetry are arts of time, sculpture and painting arts of space; a distinction to be qualified.

Cycle 7 · 26 Mar 2020#0 Harnessed to confinitude

3:03Confinement gives him back time, whereas, retired and approaching the end of his life, he had the feeling of always lacking it.

Cycle 5.2 · 2 May 2019#5.6 Nature or landscape?

1:14:42Music enters time only to exit it; Schubert's horn call suspends the form and attempts to step out of time.
1:15:59The great Romantic dream: a kind of eternity within time, Faust's "stay, you are so beautiful."

Cycle 5.2 · 4 Feb 2019#5.4 Nature or landscape?

3:34Each part chases away the other; time is more inward, spiritual; spirit is pure time in Hegel.

Cycle 4 · 15 Jan 2018#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)

30:07Time is the a priori form of all intuitions; after Kant, philosophy seeks to reconcile thought with time.
32:49Hegel defines time as man: the concept itself existing; one must be outside time to be conscious of time.

Talks · 9 Mar 2017Is history a subject?

7:38The past no longer is, the future is not yet; only the present is, hence the importance of traces for historical science.
49:03"I have changed" asserts both a change and an identical self: for there to be change, there must be something that does not change.

Talks · 26 Apr 2015The music of history

15:44Music is an art of time, an order of succession, unlike the plastic arts.
21:39The management of time is what is properly musical in music.

Series · 27 Dec 2014M for Music

5:43The intra-uterine state knows no time; time arises with the gap between desire and satisfaction.
6:44Music enters into time in order to leave it, producing a predictable time whose beginning and end rhyme.