Ève

Summary

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 God. For him, this promise marks the passage from animal to human3. 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 anthropology4. 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"5. 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 Africa6. He links this water to mud, with which it forms clay7.

1. 1#2.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?15 Feb 2016 · 50:24
2. 2Hegel on the Beach 1/51 Feb 2016 · 2:40:20
3. 3#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?10 Feb 2022 · 2:05:16
4. 4#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia…10 Dec 2020 · 51:47
5. 5Kleist, “On the Marionette Theatre”29 Sept 2023 · 34:34
6. 6Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all18 May 2023 · 31:01
7. 7Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?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.