Madame de La Fayette

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Madame de La Fayette almost entirely through The Princess of Clèves, which he takes as an example of a historically determined way of loving. He comes back to it from 2014 to 2026 with the same formula: this novel would be impossible in the age of Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon man, which shows that love has a history and that love relationships do not stem from a fixed nature123. He also uses the novel against naturalistic explanations: one cannot move from chemical equations to the reason of a romantic love4, and one learns more about love from this book than from all of cognitivism5. He also stresses its social background: the novel's first encounter presupposes a code of aristocratic high society6, in an age when social worlds did not interpenetrate7. Finally, he mentions the novel as a comparative literature topic for the agrégation8.

1. 1#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014 · 10:22
2. 2NOTRE ANCIENNE SAUVAGERIE ? - Lecture à vif d'une illumination d'Arthur Rimbaud13 Jun 2025 · 33:04
3. 3Langage et pensée : Le cas Lavoisier13 Apr 2026 · 57:19
4. 4#1.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 33:28
5. 5De Copernic à Lénine: Révolution !28 Aug 2026 · 1:11:55
6. 6Avec Clouscard2 Aug 2016 · 1:06:34
7. 7Assemblée nationale24 Oct 2018 · 1:14:14
8. 89 #21 Science et/ou philosophie de "l'Intelligence Artificielle"12 May 2021 · 46:56

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