Ronsard

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani cites Ronsard mainly through a few lines that come back from one session to another. The first, "Time goes… no, madam, it is we who go," expresses for him the awareness of death1. The second, "matter remains and form is lost," belongs in his view to a Greek way of thinking about mortality, with no beyond2. He links these two lines to enjoyment3, cites them in connection with the abyss of erudition and, later, in connection with worldliness in Clouscard: everything passes, except what the tool makes last4. For him, the poems on the faded rose also illustrate attributes that change. He uses the line "I want to read Homer's Iliad in three days" to show the Renaissance appetite for knowledge and its return to Greek values5. Finally, he judges Ronsard admirable in the sonnet and heavy in the epic, and sees him as an example of the small form in which the French excel, a comparison he also makes in connection with Schumann6.

1. 1#5 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude18 Apr 2020 · 1:00:30
2. 2Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 42:31
3. 3#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 7:07
4. 4La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le monde comme "ruse de la raison"22 Jul 2023 · 1:29:00
5. 5Clouscard et le problème de Socrate14 Oct 2022 · 40:19
6. 6#2.2 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?15 Feb 2016 · 20:51

Summary produced automatically from 15 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.