Alexandre

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Alexander the Great only in passing, mainly as a historical landmark. He treats him as the moment when the Greek city-state hands over to the Empire1. He comes back to this several times: Athens falls under the Macedonian Empire, whether in a session on crisis and war, in "Hegel Plage"2 or in a reading of Kleist's "On the Marionette Theatre"3. He recalls that Alexander was Aristotle's pupil4 and presents him as a great soldier who became emperor5. In a session on the logics of the subject, he counts him among the real heroes immortalized by the poets6. In a session on Siegfried and Perceval, devoted to hesitation, he picks out the act of cutting the Gordian knot. He makes Alexander a figure of decision, set against wavering7. The passages are brief and do not dwell on any particular work or doctrine.

1. 1#1.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?28 Jan 2016 · 29:23
2. 2Hegel on the Beach 5/52 Feb 2016 · 2:23:06
3. 3Kleist, “On the Marionette Theatre”29 Sept 2023 · 23:58
4. 4#7 Harnessed to confinitude5 May 2020 · 1:05:33
5. 5#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 20:51
6. 6#10 Return to the logics of the subject11 Jun 2020 · 27:33
7. 7Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 1:38:47

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.