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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Cain from two angles. The first runs through Nerval and the Cainite tradition. Cain is the first one punished by the jealous god, who marks him out as wicked. He stands at the origin of an underground tradition to which Adoniram belongs1. Nerval "plays his card"2. He quotes several times the line from Antéros about Cain's "implacable redness"34. The second angle is that of siblings. He places Cain and Abel among the enemy brothers of mythology, alongside Romulus and Remus, Eteocles and Polynices56. He draws a general observation from this: there is always a Cain for whom Abel is one too many. He compares this with wild dogs, among which the elder kills the younger in the womb7. Finally, he notes that for Kant, evil does not enter the world through Cain's fratricide but through the first lie8.

1. 1Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 1:49:12
2. 2#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:22:40
3. 3#8 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude17 May 2020 · 1:17:39
4. 4#9 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 May 2020 · 53:14
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7. 7Dominique Pagani : « Ce qui menace les sociétés, ce sont les hommes et femmes bénéficiaires de l’exploitation des autres »12 Mar 2019 · 41:22
8. 8#8 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude17 May 2020 · 1:25:55

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