Archimède

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly brings up Archimedes through the lever formula: "Give me a fulcrum and I will lift the world." He comes across it in a text by Gracq, on which he comments several times12. He also puts it to conceptual use in ways that vary with the context: the image serves to designate dogmatism3, it serves as a comparison for common sense4, and later for Hegel's dialectic5. On the scientific side, he places Archimedes within the Greek share of the European heritage. He sees him as the summit of ancient mathematics6 and notes that his method of exhaustion is what comes closest to infinitesimal calculus before Leibniz and Newton7. He stresses the advances made in physics as early as Antiquity and points out that Archimedes' principle already had the form of a law, in a reflection on whether sciences of history are possible. He illustrates it with the image of the ball pushed down into the water that jumps back into your face.

1. 1Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 2:28
2. 2#13 • Retour aux logiques du sujet9 Jul 2020 · 13:58
3. 3#3.5 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:18:28
4. 4Cynisme de l'extrême centre ou héroïsme épistémique ? La dialectique du milieu • Dominique Pagani20 May 2021 · 1:00:55
5. 5La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 1:19:11
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 1:23:25
7. 7Mythologie Grecque31 Dec 2018 · 1:05:40

Summary produced automatically from 13 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.