Sénèque

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns mainly to two points in Seneca. The first comes from his Phaedra: in his version, it is Phaedra herself who slanders her stepson Hippolytus. He brings this up often, from 2016 to 2020, without developing it further in these passages123. The second is a sentence from a letter to a friend leaving for Libya: wherever one goes, the distance to the underworld stays the same4. He takes it up in several contexts. In 2019, he reads it this way: one carries one's social class along5. In 2020, at the start of the lockdown, he applies it to the fact that one always falls back on current events6. He also mentions Seneca's statues, twisted with anxiety, to illustrate Roman hyperrealism7. Finally, he mentions his death: a suicide in a hot bath, on Nero's orders8.

1. 1Marx Plage 1/21 Feb 2016 · 1:17:13
2. 2#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 1:25:27
3. 3L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 1:32:10
4. 4Freud1 Aug 2017 · 1:03:34
5. 5#5.4 Introduction / Nature ou Paysage ?25 Jan 2019 · 44:16
6. 6#0 - Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude26 Mar 2020 · 7:15
7. 7Hegel Plage 5/52 Feb 2016 · 12:58
8. 8#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 33:39

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