Cycle 5.2 · 26 May 2019#5.7 Nature or landscape?- 16:23Among the first analysts of romanticism, she writes that light comes from the North.
Madame de Staël
Appears in 17 videos · 17 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Summary
What Dominique Pagani mainly takes from Madame de Staël is one phrase, "Light comes to us from the North," which he quotes from 2015 to 2025 in a wide range of settings. He presents her as one of the first analysts of Romanticism: she tells the French that the movement is born in the northern countries before it becomes French12. He agrees with her on this point3 and adds that German Romanticism is the original one. He links this geography to economic history: Romanticism first breaks out where the industrial revolution begins45. In a session on Sahelian Africa, he turns the phrase around and says that light comes to us from the South6. Elsewhere, he names her among the women who play a crucial role in the Romantic period7. He also attributes to her, cautiously, the expression "Robespierre on horseback" for Napoleon8.
- 1#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)2 Nov 2018 · 48:44
- 2#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:03:48
- 3#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)16 May 2018 · 1:41:54
- 4#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?14 Sept 2015 · 1:20:43
- 5Clouscard by you: answers to your questions28 Feb 2024 · 1:31:48
- 6Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger23 Mar 2024 · 1:13:48
- 7The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner6 Feb 2022 · 11:51
- 8Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning2 Dec 2024 · 21:28
Summary produced automatically from 17 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (French:; née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël ( də-STAHL; French:), was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She was the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a respected salonist and writer. Throughout her life, she held a moderate stance during the tumultuous periods of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, persisting until the time of the French Restoration. […]
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Cycle 5.2 · 26 May 2019#5.7 Nature or landscape?
Cycle 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)- 48:44Knows that romanticism comes from the North, before being French.
Series · 13 Jun 2025Our former savagery? An Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud- 16:38She said at the start of Romanticism: "Light comes to us from the north."
Talks · 2 Dec 2024Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning- 21:28Said to have called Napoleon "Robespierre on horseback."
Talks · 23 Mar 2024Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger- 1:13:48"Light comes to us from the north"; he says: light comes to us from the south.
Cycle 12 · 28 Feb 2024Clouscard by you: answers to your questions- 1:31:48"The light comes from the North": Romanticism is born where the industrial revolution begins.
Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?- 1:11:00"Light comes to us from the North": romanticism first bursts forth in the northern countries.
Cycle 10 · 23 Jun 2022#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions- 1:03:48She announces to the French that light comes from the North.
Series · 6 Feb 2022The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner- 11:51Mentioned among the women who play a major role in the Romantic period.
Cycle 9.2 · 30 Jun 2021#9.24 “Ruled like music paper!” Nerval, Baudelaire (part 2)- 1:15:37"Light comes to us from the North."
Series · 7 Apr 2021#1 Mignon, or the song of silence- 53:51"Light comes to us from the North."
Cycle 6 · 19 Feb 2020#6.5 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 50:03"Light comes to us from the north": German romanticism is the original one.
Talks · 3 Aug 2019Money, work, freedom- 51:05"Light comes to us from the north," to explain romanticism.
Cycle 4 · 16 May 2018#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:41:54He is right: romanticism comes from the North.
Cycle 4 · 11 Dec 2017#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:43:19Romanticism begins in the North.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 9:11She says that light comes from the north, with romanticism.
Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:20:43"Light comes to us from the North": romanticism comes from the countries of the industrial revolution.