Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 49:51Gulliver's TravelsThe Lilliputians' war over how to break eggs: irony aimed at wars born of differences of quality.
Swift
Appears in 8 videos · 8 passages, 1 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
What Dominique Pagani mainly takes from Jonathan Swift is one episode of Gulliver's Travels: the Lilliputian war between those who break their eggs at the little end and those who break them at the big end. He reads it as irony aimed at wars born of trivial stakes, that is, of mere differences of quality, and at how absurd such slight motives are for massacres1. He returns to this example several times, notably in the series "Between crisis and war: to philosophize?", where it serves to question the causes of conflicts23. Swift also appears in another context: the chain of literary imitations that he discusses in connection with Nerval. There Swift is one link in the chain, imitated by Sterne45. He mentions him alongside Sterne in a session on Schumann, and comes back to this "cascade of imitations" both in his 2020 interview and in 202467.
- 1Q comme Qualité31 Dec 2014 · 9:23
- 2#1.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 49:51
- 3#1.8 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?28 Jan 2016 · 1:22:00
- 4#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 1:40:01
- 5#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 51:30
- 6L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 2:13
- 7TROP TARD ?14 Aug 2024 · 1:09:02
Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature. […]
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Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
Season 12 · 14 Aug 2024TOO LATE?- 1:09:02In the chain of imitations.
Series · 23 Mar 2020Interview with Dominique Pagani: Introduction to the upcoming workshops- 2:13Cited in the cascade of imitations.
Season 5.2 · 2 May 2019#5.6 Nature or Landscape?- 38:56Gulliver's TravelsCited with Sterne, the author of Gulliver.
Season 4 · 12 Apr 2018#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)- 51:30Gulliver's TravelsLink in the chain of imitations.
Season 4 · 15 Jan 2018#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:40:01Imitated by Sterne.
Season 1 · 28 Jan 2016#1.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:22:00Gulliver's TravelsThe war between the partisans of the small end and the big end of the egg.
Series · 31 Dec 2014Q for Quality- 9:23Gulliver's TravelsThe Lilliputian war over which end to break eggs on shows the absurdity of the trivial stakes at the origin of carnage.