Aristophane

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Aristophanes mainly through a formula he borrows from Hegel and repeats from 2016 to 2023: the laughter of his comedies resounds over the ruins of Athens, or of the Greek city12. In his view, Aristophanes closes the Greek aesthetic cycle: comedy comes after the tragic movement and marks its end3. He uses him to illustrate a more general idea, that the comic is the final stage of the great aesthetic cycles4. He speaks sometimes of humour, sometimes of "sneering", to describe the moment when Greek tragedy comes to an end56. In a different context, he cites him among the sources on Socrates: Aristophanes provides the oldest testimony in the Socratic doxography. He also counts him, as the "comedy-maker", among Socrates' accusers, since *The Clouds* equates Socrates with the physicists7.

1. 1Hegel Plage 5/52 Feb 2016 · 2:22:46
2. 2Musicosophie 9. Ironie romantique et sonate de Vinteuil15 Jan 2021 · 12:50
3. 3#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 58:33
4. 4#16 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 Jul 2020 · 1:11:51
5. 5Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 1:22:56
6. 6Kleist « Sur le théâtre de marionnettes » - Pagani - Lectures sur le vif29 Sept 2023 · 23:58
7. 7De Platon à la révolution mondiale par Dominique Pagani14 Jul 2022 · 12:32

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