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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani often comes back to Eve through the story of the temptation in Genesis. He quotes the serpent's promise, "you shall be as God, knowing good and evil"1, and comments on it by saying that knowledge hurts2. He compares Eve to Prometheus, since both risk making man equal to God3. For him, this promise marks the passage from animal to human4. He reads the sentence to bring forth children in pain in the same way, presenting it as the sign of the passage from zoology to anthropology5. He also mentions the enmity with the serpent. He recounts the episode of the forbidden fruit, which Eve tastes and then gives Adam to taste, notably while reading Kleist's "On the Marionette Theatre"6. In 2023, he turns to Eve's name. He traces it to a Semitic root meaning water, and he mentions the first names Adama and Hawa in Africa7. He links this water to mud, with which it forms clay8.

1. 1#2.2 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?15 Feb 2016 · 50:24
2. 2Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 2:40:20
3. 3Adamov (Arthur)18 Feb 2016 · 19:08
4. 4#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 2:05:16
5. 5#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 51:47
6. 6Kleist « Sur le théâtre de marionnettes » - Pagani - Lectures sur le vif29 Sept 2023 · 34:34
7. 7La mondanité chez Clouscard ou les privilèges pour tous18 May 2023 · 31:01
8. 8La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le choc des mondes ?9 Jul 2023 · 1:17:48

Summary produced automatically from 13 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.