Bonaventura

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Bonaventura for a single book, the Night Watches (Les Veilles). He presents it as the journal of a night watchman published in 1802 and as one of the most extreme texts of German Romanticism12. He stresses that the author is anonymous: a contemporary of Hegel whose identity is still unknown. He reports that Schelling's name has been put forward3, and he himself suggests that the author could be Hegel, since the watchman almost states negativity4. He takes one thesis from the text: everything is nothing, and death is immanent in every instant. He sees in it a materialism more radical and more distressing than that of the Enlightenment5. He also highlights the image of a nothingness that swallows itself up and would show itself if life were interrupted6. Finally, he links the work to the question of the subject, since it puts forward the terrifying hypothesis that there is no someone7. He cites it in sessions devoted to Nerval, Schumann, Hölderlin and contradictory identity.

1. 1Schumann2 May 2019 · 43:25
2. 2#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 1:06:25
3. 3UN PRINTEMPS DES PEUPLES ?18 Mar 2023 · 45:55
4. 4#4.8 Angélique (de Nerval)16 May 2018 · 1:40:10
5. 5Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 12:24
6. 6"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 1:53:54
7. 7De Platon à Proust - Lectures à vifs6 Jul 2026 · 41:20

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