Buttafoco

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani always mentions Matteo Buttafoco in the same role: as Paoli's emissary to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and as Rousseau's correspondent on the Corsican project1. He mentions him several times between 2014 and 2023, and the way he presents him does not change from one session to the next. He points out that it is Buttafoco who asks Rousseau for a constitution for Corsica2 and that four letters addressed to him have survived3. Buttafoco is not a subject of study in his own right for him. He appears as a secondary figure through whom he recalls the link between Rousseau and Paoli's Corsica. These mentions come up in sessions on very different subjects: a lecture on a "triangle of madness at the heart of modern consciousness"1, a session on Nerval's Angélique, another on money, work and freedom4, a musicosophy class on happiness and unhappiness in music, a session on the figure of Antigone and an interview devoted to childhood.

1. 1« D’un triangle de folie au cœur de la conscience moderne »19 Dec 2014 · 14:37
2. 210#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 50:09
3. 3La PHILO avec PAGANI : E comme ENFANCE4 Jun 2023 · 17:12
4. 4Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 46:36

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.