Schiller

Summary

Dominique Pagani associates Schiller with Goethe in Weimar classicism, which he regards as the summit of German humanism, later targeted by the Nazis12. He often comes back to the Ode to Joy: the last lines of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit are taken from it, and he holds that this is no accident34. He comments on the line saying that joy reunites what fashion had divided, in which Wagner reads an allusion to Paris5, and he considers that the European Union has sullied this text, which is that of the finale of the Ninth6. On the political side, he recalls that the Convention made Schiller an honorary citizen and that Schiller gave up the wig after Rousseau. He also notes that Schiller, disappointed by the Revolution, places freedom "on the mountains" and so flees the political world7. In aesthetics, he cites the Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, which he finds close to the musical thing itself8, as well as the phrase "the dreary empire of the concept".

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2. 2#5 Happiness versus the death drive in music11 Dec 2020 · 53:58
3. 3Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)12 Mar 2018 · 53:39
4. 4Secularism, the truth of religion?18 Feb 2024 · 1:22:32
5. 5#11 Modal and tonal music24 Jan 2021 · 1:48:59
6. 6Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative29 Jun 2023 · 1:49:28
7. 7Tribute to Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 26:42
8. 8#18 What is musical in music25 Mar 2021 · 32:25

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