Summary Dominique Pagani often quotes Goethe's formula "with Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins," which he takes as a starting point for thinking about historical ruptures, while noting that its allusions need to be spelled out1 . He gives Faust a close reading: the translation of John's prologue ending in "in the beginning was the deed"2 , and the pact based on the moment to which one would say "stay, you are so beautiful," which is fulfilled only when Faust hears a people building a dike so as to "live free on a free land"3 . He also draws from it the warning that to despise science and reason is to give oneself to the devil, which he reads as an anticipation of German irrationalism4 . He sees Wilhelm Meister as the successor of Émile in the novel of formation and links it to Hegel's Phenomenology5 . He presents Goethe as a "plastic" classic, wary of the Romantics, who nonetheless brings Mignon into his most prosaic novel6 . Finally, he recalls that a quotation from Goethe was displayed at the entrance of Buchenwald, near Weimar.
1 The world before, the world after (part 1) 16 Jan 2021 · 26:21 2 #1.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising? 10 Dec 2015 · 54:41 3 #4.9 Angélique (by Nerval) 14 Jun 2018 · 1:38:57 4 The aporias of anthropology 23 Nov 2022 · 28:17 5 Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3) 2 Aug 2016 · 27:12 6 #1 Mignon, or the song of silence 7 Apr 2021 · 26:11 Summary produced automatically from 131 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. […]
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Series · 25 Mar 2021 #18 What is musical in music14:20 Faust The watchman "born to see": objectivism without voice-over; Goethe is more plastic than musical.21:14 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship According to Wagner, Wilhelm understands Mignon as superficially as Goethe then understood music.33:06 According to Hegel, he turns his genius toward external nature: plants, crystals, clouds, colors. 38:25 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Mignon, a pre-social being, sings "Kennst du das Land" with a pleading intonation full of desires.1:17:54 Contradiction between the classical plastician and the moral maxim "Stirb und werde," die and become. Series · 7 Apr 2021 #1 Mignon, or the song of silence26:11 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Goethe carries Faust and Wilhelm Meister throughout his life; wary of the Romantics, he seeks balance, yet lets Mignon emerge in his most prosaic novel.29:06 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship The ballad "Do you know the land where the lemon blossoms?"; Goethe hesitates for a long time before assigning a sex to Mignon.42:44 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Goethe the plastic artist, a lover of the Hellenic, delivers in this song nostalgia set into words and music.58:27 Faust According to Wagner, Goethe awakens by completing Faust, whose final lines on the eternal feminine embody the spirit of music.Cycle 12 · 4 Jan 2024 I am not who you think I am: the elusive identity10:52 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Goethe's most prosaic novel of apprenticeship, the opposite of the romantic hero, in which Mignon nonetheless appears.14:55 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Hesitated for a long time before giving Mignon a sex.21:25 Is not a romantic: he initiates the period with Faust but does not fall into the abyss. 34:04 Faust The prologue in heaven shows God allowing the devil to tempt Faust: an illustration of the negativity necessary to man.Cycle 11 · 9 Jul 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?45:35 Faust In the prologue in heaven, God warns against contempt for science and reason and praises the spirit of negativity.56:42 Faust The pact: Faust will give his soul if he can say to the moment "stay, you are so beautiful."1:04:35 Faust Blind Faust hears a dike being built and finds his goal: living free on a free land.1:53:46 Faust God's statement on science and reason concludes his answer on the left.Cycle 12 · 14 Aug 2024 Too late?48:48 At Valmy: "here begins a new era in the history of the world." 52:50 Has a sense of the decisive: with Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins. Cycle 10 · 3 Nov 2021 #10.4 From Lascaux to modern music, the permanence of the political stakes in aesthetics53:39 Faust The most plastic of authors; his literary work compensated him for a failed career as a painter.1:03:30 Corresponds to the moment of the statue; his Apollonian caution protects him from Romantic madness. Cycle 9.1 · 3 Dec 2020 #7 Answers to questions (continued)22:49 With Schiller, summit of Weimar classicism, designated as the enemy by the Nazi philosophers. 26:20 One of his quotations placed without comment by East Germany at the entrance of Buchenwald. Cycle 5.2 · 4 Feb 2019 #5.4 Nature or landscape?11:01 Classical and not romantic, irritated by the romantics; his Hellenic sobriety in the face of Bettina Brentano. 13:56 Faust Faust upon waking: only a spectacle, "where shall I grasp you, infinite nature?"Series · 1 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 1/516:41 Classicist wary of the young Romantics: what is problematic in him is enough for him. 38:56 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Novel of formation that follows a German petit bourgeois to his maturity.1:37:08 Faust Would have preferred Nerval's translation to the original.2:24:04 Faust "Stirb und werde," die and become.Cycle 14 · 28 Feb 2026 Their “Europe” means war17:51 He is a classic for the Germans. His line on the heights of Buchenwald, placed at the camp's entrance, sums up German tragic irony. Cycle 13 · 20 Sept 2024 Sickness, misfortune, evil48:57 Admired by Nietzsche; his "die and become" places becoming above the affirmation of identity. Cycle 12 · 4 Jun 2024 The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present1:26:28 Faust The pact: Faust will give his soul if he can say to the instant "Verweile doch, du bist so schön."Cycle 12 · 28 Feb 2024 Clouscard by you: answers to your questions27:35 Associated with Hegel in the pun on Germanness. 1:48:46 Faust Conclusion on the eternal feminine that elevates us; the related question is deferred to the next session.Cycle 11 · 3 Sept 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?26:00 Faust The devil, despite his powers, cannot procure for Faust a moment to which he would say "stay, you are so beautiful."Cycle 11 · 13 Nov 2022 Dialectics of hesitation and decision47:41 Faust In the prologue in heaven, whoever despises science and reason, the highest gifts of humanity, would give himself to the devil.Cycle 10 · 23 Dec 2021 #10.7 “Postmodern” eco-petty-Nazism: Plato's Gorgias1:39:35 "Stirb und werde": die and become, against romantic melancholy. 1:47:42 Faust The pact with Mephisto fails: the infinity of desire constitutes man's superiority.Series · 6 Jun 2021 #3 Nomad or sedentary? The case of Nerval13:06 Faust Faust's pact with the devil expresses the infinity of human desire.28:50 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Mignon did not speak, she warbled.Cycle 9.2 · 3 Apr 2021 #9.18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation42:19 Faust Mephistopheles calls himself "the spirit that denies"; in the prologue in heaven, God loves this spirit of negativity without which man would fall asleep.Series · 2 Feb 2021 #13 Mozart restored3:37 Wary of romanticism, reveres Mozart, terrified by Beethoven; classical tastes. Talks · 16 Jan 2021 The world before, the world after (part 1)1:13 The organizer quotes his phrase: with Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins. 7:29 His phrase serves as a starting point for thinking about historical breaks. 26:21 His formula condenses everything, but his allusions to Voltaire and Rousseau need to be clarified. Cycle 9.2 · 14 Jan 2021 #9.12 How can sciences of history be real?36:06 Faust He has Mephistopheles say that whoever despises science and reason gives himself to the devil.Series · 11 Jan 2021 #8 Happiness and unhappiness in music2:03:39 Faust Distrusted the Germans: whoever despises science and reason gives themselves to the devil.Series · 17 Dec 2020 #7 The Greeks, myth and music54:45 Faust Whoever scorns science and reason gives himself to the devil: a warning to German history.Cycle 9.1 · 17 Dec 2020 #9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…22:53 "If someone has something to tell me, let him tell me clearly": a demand for clarity. Cycle 9.1 · 8 Oct 2020 #1 Benefits and harms of amnesia…37:17 Ganymede Author of a poem about Ganymede, set to music by Schubert.42:43 Faust Faust's pact rests on an instant to which one would say "stay, you are so beautiful"; he said that with Rousseau a world begins.Cycle 8 · 21 Jun 2020 #11 Return to the logics of the subject11:03 Cited among the German classics. 1:16:46 Like Hegel, he is reserved toward the romantics: "the obscure things, those I have within me, suffice me." Cycle 7 · 11 Apr 2020 #4 Harnessed to confinitude56:58 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Mignon's romance, "Knowst thou the land where lemon trees bloom," expresses the German longing for the Mediterranean.Talks · 3 Aug 2019 Money, work, freedom51:30 Faust Faust before the landscape: "a spectacle only"; the worker, by contrast, has already grasped nature.Cycle 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019 #5.8 Nature or landscape?44:12 Faust "What a spectacle! But alas, a spectacle only! Where shall I grasp you, infinite nature?"1:31:36 Quoted by a participant on the truth one embraces by pushing it away. Cycle 5.2 · 2 May 2019 #5.6 Nature or landscape?36:13 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship A masterpiece of the novel of formation, which leads to the modern petty bourgeois.1:15:59 Faust The pact with the devil: a happiness such that one says at that instant "stay, you are so beautiful."Series · 2 May 2019 Michel Foucault22:56 Faust "A good German" who mocks Deutschtum; to despise science and reason is to give oneself to the devil.44:11 Attacked by the Nazis in the name of Weimar humanism. Cycle 5.2 · 26 Mar 2019 #5.5 Nature or landscape?47:43 Faust Faust's pact embodies human unease; he says "stay, you are so beautiful" only before the idea of living free on a free land.50:21 "I prefer an injustice to a disorder": his work goes further than his thought. Cycle 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018 #5.2 bis Questions (Facebook Live)5:26 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Bourgeois counterpart of Émile, in the non-pejorative sense of Bürger, the citizen.Cycle 5.1 · 21 Nov 2018 #5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought21:56 Hates 'Germanness' and prefers Italy and the East, but says he prefers an injustice to a disorder. 1:18:19 Correspondence with Schiller on becoming-unfolding and becoming-development. Cycle 5.1 · 24 Oct 2018 #5.1 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought59:57 With Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins. 1:01:18 Faust "Where shall I grasp you, infinite nature" and the two souls: the modern split within the subject.Talks · 20 Jul 2018 Education: can beauty be learned?29:14 A quotation of his about the Buchenwald landscape elevating the soul was posted at the entrance to the camp: the height of humanism next to barbarism. 45:31 A participant attributes to him the idea that a painting has beauty only in the eyes of the one who looks at it. Cycle 4 · 14 Jun 2018 #4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)1:31:26 "Stirb und werde." 1:38:57 Faust Faust says "Moment, stay, you are so beautiful" only upon hearing a people building a dike: "to live free on a free soil."Cycle 4 · 16 May 2018 #4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)22:28 Faust After translating Nerval, he says he can no longer read Faust in German.Cycle 4 · 12 Apr 2018 #4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)5:31 Faust He pays tribute to Nerval's translation of Faust, which he prefers to the original.1:36:31 Poem set to music by Schubert: the father carries his son in it. Cycle 4 · 11 Dec 2017 #4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)1:43:19 The Sorrows of Young Werther A novel he came to regret: the hero commits suicide without having touched the woman; Sylvie alludes to it.Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?14:26 Faust Worried about Romanticism: whoever despises reason and science gives himself to the devil.Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.6 From Ulysses to Daedalus1:34:19 With Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins. Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus1:48:24 Faust Whoever despises science and reason gives himself to the devil; a German who knew the Germans.Cycle 2 · 10 Mar 2016 #2.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?30:24 The Sorrows of Young Werther He regrets Werther and its hecatomb. He responds to Bettina's exaltation: "calm is what we both need."Series · 1 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 2/555:16 Hegel's friend; his friendship with Schiller embodies the Weimar classicism targeted by Baeumler. 1:53:39 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Shows the petty bourgeois reconciling himself with the prose of life; his last words: "mehr Licht."Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015 #1.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?54:41 Faust Faust translates the prologue of John: word, will, force, then "in the beginning was the act."1:36:45 Truth is embraced precisely when one pushes it away. Talks · 23 Jun 2015 L'île du Peuple: the debate1:16:12 Faust Faust translates the beginning of the Gospel of John: "in the beginning was the word," then force, then action.Series · 23 Sept 2014 #3 The myth of the noble savage in Rousseau35:17 "I prefer an injustice to disorder," the phrase too far. 38:00 Faust A lifelong work that arrives at "living free on a free land."Series · 20 Sept 2014 #2 Rousseau, a world that begins0:00 Author of the formula on Voltaire and Rousseau; wary of the romantics, he states the problem in one sentence. Talks · 23 May 2026 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: is Michel Clouscard still relevant?31:19 With Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins. Cycle 14 · 9 Aug 2025 The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society3:26 With Schiller, a summit of German humanism in Weimar, three kilometers from Buchenwald. Cycle 12 · 30 May 2024 From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject1:18:13 Touched by illuminism, though among the most balanced. Cycle 12 · 22 Dec 2023 Birth and carnage: the Massacre of the Innocents1:16:27 Faust Work that inaugurates modernity; Mephistopheles appears in it as nothingness.Cycle 11 · 26 Apr 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard, or “the dominant ideology”56:57 The West-East Divan "Stirb und werde," die and become: becoming mature.Cycle 11 · 23 Nov 2022 The aporias of anthropology28:17 Faust Whoever despises science and reason gives himself to the devil; he anticipated German irrationalism.Cycle 10 · 8 Dec 2021 #10.6 War and peace: “The death drives advance in silence…” (Freud)33:07 A previous video on his character Mignon deals with sound, music, and silence. Cycle 10 · 6 Oct 2021 #10.2 Dialectics of identity and difference47:08 Friend of Hegel, with whom he took an interest in botany. Series · 4 Oct 2021 #4 Nomad and sedentary: the case of Nerval1:48:48 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship The two young girls of the caravan recall to Nerval Mignon and Philine.Cycle 9.2 · 30 Jun 2021 #9.24 “Ruled like music paper!” Nerval, Baudelaire (part 2)46:33 Faust Nerval became famous at 19 by translating Faust.Cycle 9.2 · 9 Jun 2021 #9.23 “Ruled like music paper!” Bach, Nerval, Lévi-Strauss49:31 Describes Mignon singing and dancing. Cycle 9.2 · 12 May 2021 #9.21 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence”4:45 Mignon's song, subject of the previous analytic reveries. 42:51 Specifies that Mignon is between two sexes and between two ages. 46:56 Faust The homunculus, a little man fabricated in a laboratory.Cycle 9.2 · 14 Apr 2021 #9.19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation (part 2)17:07 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Author of the text of the ballad sung by Mignon.Series · 9 Feb 2021 #15 Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music1:19:22 Poet inserted by Hegel in the history of aesthetics after Kant. Series · 24 Jan 2021 #11 Modal and tonal music1:50:20 Object of a fine passage in Wagner's Beethoven. Series · 11 Dec 2020 #5 Happiness versus the death drive in music53:58 Figure of German humanism targeted by the Nazis. Cycle 9.1 · 10 Dec 2020 #8 Benefits and harms of amnesia…25:39 A quotation from Goethe stood at the entrance to Buchenwald, three kilometers from Weimar. 1:14:06 Faust Nerval became known through his translation of his Faust.Cycle 9.1 · 19 Nov 2020 #5 Benefits and harms of amnesia…46:58 "With Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins." Talks · 5 Oct 2020 Calves and Things (2): ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?28:50 Faust Ends his Faust on "live free on a free land."Cycle 7 · 17 May 2020 #8 Harnessed to confinitude30:01 Faust Faust, a lifelong work, in which Mephistopheles embodies the infernal essence.1:08:50 Faust Said to have remarked that he could no longer read his Faust in German after Nerval's translation.Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020 #7 Harnessed to confinitude1:29:40 Marx quotes his joke about the origin of capital: "he took it". Cycle 7 · 26 Apr 2020 #6 Harnessed to confinitude40:12 One of his passages on the swan is analyzed by Bachelard. Cycle 7 · 18 Apr 2020 #5 Harnessed to confinitude1:07:58 Faust Whoever despises reason and science gives himself to the devil: he warned the Germans.Cycle 7 · 30 Mar 2020 #2 Harnessed to confinitude37:08 "Truth, when one rejects it, one embraces it." Cycle 6 · 29 Mar 2020 #6.6 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism1:04:45 The Sorrows of Young Werther In Napoleon's baggage.Series · 23 Mar 2020 Introduction to the upcoming workshops44:37 The Sorrows of Young Werther Almost regrets having written Werther because of the suicides that followed.Cycle 6 · 30 Jan 2020 #6.4 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism1:08:01 His statue in Weimar, in the green heart of Germany. Cycle 6 · 8 Jan 2020 #6.3 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism1:51:49 "Stirb und werde," die and become. Cycle 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018 #5.2 ter Questions, following workshop #5.2 (Facebook Live)28:21 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Cited in the question as a bourgeois counterpart to Émile.45:12 Faust Has Faust say that despising science and reason is giving oneself to the devil.Talks · 2 Jul 2018 The Phenomenology of Spirit1:00:22 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship A model of the Bildungsroman with which Hegel's generation was steeped.Cycle 4 · 12 Feb 2018 #4.5 Angélique (by Nerval)1:22:30 Cited among the freemasons. Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus41:31 Faust Faust before the landscape: "a spectacle only," vision distances.Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus47:41 "With Voltaire a world ends, with Rousseau a world begins." Talks · 2 Aug 2016 Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3)27:12 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship the Phenomenology is presented as a sequel to Wilhelm Meister, a novel of formationTalks · 2 Aug 2016 Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2)17:38 His translation of Rameau's Nephew brings it into Hegel's orbit. 26:37 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Affinities between this novel and the Phenomenology of Spirit.Cycle 2 · 18 Feb 2016 #2.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1:01:56 Faust A poem about old winter withdrawing.Series · 1 Feb 2016 Marx on the Beach 2/242:03 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Successor to Émile in the novel of formation.Cycle 1 · 28 Jan 2016 #1.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1:34:42 Truth, when one pushes it away, one embraces it. Series · 19 Dec 2014 E for Enfance (Childhood)7:24 Exemplifies the Bildungsroman inaugurated by Émile. .jpg)
Series · 25 Mar 2021#18 What is musical in music
