Sénèque

Summary

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 same. He takes it up in several contexts. In 2019, he reads it this way: one carries one's social class along4. In 2020, at the start of the lockdown, he applies it to the fact that one always falls back on current events5. He also mentions Seneca's statues, twisted with anxiety, to illustrate Roman hyperrealism6. Finally, he mentions his death: a suicide in a hot bath, on Nero's orders7.

1. 1Marx on the Beach 1/21 Feb 2016 · 1:17:13
2. 2#2.6 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1 Aug 2017 · 1:25:27
3. 3Introduction to the upcoming workshops23 Mar 2020 · 1:32:10
4. 4#5.4 Introduction: nature or landscape?25 Jan 2019 · 44:16
5. 5#0 Harnessed to confinitude26 Mar 2020 · 7:15
6. 6Hegel on the Beach 5/52 Feb 2016 · 12:58
7. 7#6.6 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism29 Mar 2020 · 33:39

Summary produced automatically from 12 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.