Talks · 29 May 2023PHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: D for DESIRE- 6:49MaximsFrench moralist: some would never have been in love had they never heard of love, which he takes as a general rule.
La Rochefoucauld
Appears in 9 videos · 9 passages, 3 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
What Dominique Pagani mainly takes from La Rochefoucauld is one maxim, which he quotes several times between 2014 and 2023: some people would never have fallen in love had they not heard of love1. He presents it as the statement of a general rule about desire2. He then uses it in a range of contexts: music and Greek myth3, amnesia4, and a question-and-answer session5. In 2019, speaking about Michel Foucault, he treats it as the work of a moralist who studies manners and customs, and he argues that this maxim about learned love already contains the programme of structuralism6. Elsewhere he calls the Maxims "admirable" and notes that their author was an aristocrat7. He also links him with Nietzsche: he notes that Nietzsche admired this French moralist8 and treats La Rochefoucauld as a model of ease that Nietzsche does not reach9.
- 1D comme Désir17 Dec 2014 · 6:38
- 2La PHILO avec PAGANI : D comme DÉSIR29 May 2023 · 6:49
- 3Musicosophie 7. Les Grecs, le mythe et la musique17 Dec 2020 · 24:29
- 4#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020 · 1:36:56
- 5Wagner et ses interprètes, L'accès à Clouscard, Marx = Thésée? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 1:06:35
- 6Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault2 May 2019 · 9:10
- 710#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 9:28
- 8Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 1:40:26
- 9#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014 · 1:25
Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (; French:; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published. His Maximes portrays the callous nature of human conduct, with a cynical attitude towards putative virtue and avowals of affection, friendship, love, and loyalty. […]
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Talks · 29 May 2023PHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: D for DESIRE
Series · 2 May 2019Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault- 9:10MaximsMoralist who studies manners; his maxim on love already contains the program of structuralism.
Series · 17 Dec 2014D for Desire- 6:38MaximsFrench moralist: some would never have been in love if they had not heard love spoken of, which states a general rule.
Season 10 · 24 Nov 202110#5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last...- 9:28MaximsAristocratic author of the admirable Maxims.
Series · 31 Mar 2021Wagner and his interpreters, Approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani- 1:06:35MaximsSome would never have fallen in love had they not heard love spoken of.
Series · 17 Dec 2020Musicosophy 7. The Greeks, myth and music- 24:29MaximsOne would not be in love without having heard love spoken of.
Season 9.1 · 17 Dec 2020#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia...- 1:36:56MaximsSome would never fall in love if they had not heard of love.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:40:26A French moralist admired by Nietzsche.
Series · 26 Sept 2014#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard.- 1:25A model of ease that Nietzsche does not attain.