Casanova

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Casanova mainly as a typical figure of eighteenth-century libertinism in morals1, and he cites him among other libertines2. He links him to a century in which enjoyment becomes a value3. He also treats him as a social figure: the libertine who rules by the sword and holds a privileged position4. Most often Casanova serves him as a counterpoint to Rousseau. He comes back several times to the legend that turned Rousseau into a Casanova, a seducer beneath the window with a silk ladder, an image he presents as a distortion567. In 2023 he refers to Casanova's memoirs and their silk ladders. He sees in them obstacles of a different kind from those that stop feeling, within a line of thought that contrasts the debauchery of the senses with the orgy of feeling8. In these passages Casanova remains a figure of comparison rather than an author he reads closely.

1. 1#1.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 4:47
2. 2#1 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...8 Oct 2020 · 46:28
3. 3#3.6 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:20:54
4. 4I comme île23 Dec 2014 · 9:01
5. 5#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 16:46
6. 6Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 219 Jun 2016 · 8:55
7. 7Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 1:20:45
8. 8Dominique Pagani : De la débauche du sens à l'orgie du sentiment29 May 2023 · 1:04:45

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