Music

Season 13

What do money, neopositivism, and bourgeois civil society have in common in the repression of the subject and self-knowledge?

dominique bintou

Why is Napoleon of interest to philosophy, and what does Hegel's concept of the cunning of reason show about him?

Season 13

How is evil, under the figures of misfortune, illness and suffering, linked to autumn and finitude, and how can it be overcome?

Season 12

What does the critique of the distinction according to Bourdieu by Henri Lefebvre, and more broadly the work of Clouscard, teach us about how to think differences, relativism and determinism?

Season 12

What is dialectic, if it hinges on the internal contradiction of a subject between opposed and mutually necessary moments?

Season 11

What is the object of human desire in our modernity, and who is its subject?

Season 11

How does the positivity of the negative, read in a poem by Aragon and in the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, shed light on Clouscard's concept of worldliness and the critique of neopositivism?

Readings on the spot

What do two paragraphs of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil reveal about the music to come and the German soul?

Season 11

Can we fix a threshold where one ceases to be animal and becomes man, or must man be thought as the very movement of this passage?

Pagani Parle Musique

How does music enter into time only to leave it, bringing back the past to the point of touching a kind of eternity?

Pagani Parle Musique

Why does Nietzsche, after condemning Parsifal as a Christian betrayal of the Greek ideal, recognize in its music the truth he had refused?

Pagani Parle Musique

What does music say when it says nothing, and how does instrumental music express what words dare not say?

Pagani Parle Musique

How does the scherzo of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio unite popular and learned music?

Season 10

What place does music occupy between the mathematician, the poet and the philosopher, and what good use can be made of Nietzsche, the philosopher who spoke most of music?

Pagani Parle Musique

Do the common divisions between tonal and modal music, learned and popular, classical and jazz hold up to scrutiny?

Season 10

What remains invariant, beneath their apparent discontinuity, in Dominique Pagani's talks?

Pagani Parle Musique

How should one listen to a baritone saxophone solo against a big band, using the landmarks of jazz history and the range of the instruments?

Pagani Parle Musique

How does Mozart's music unite libertinism and generosity, comedy and true emotion, gaiety and melancholy?

Pagani Parle Musique

What can we expect from speaking about music, and why deprive young people of music they are being denied?

Questions and answers

Why is romanticism ambivalent between aesthetics and politics, and in what sense are surface, reflection and landscape more profound than the depths?

Season 10

How can we think the dialectic between the security of the hinterland and the peril of the edge, and what does it mean to stand on a "perpetuated edge"?

Questions and answers

What does Heidegger have in mind when he traces the atomic bomb back to Descartes's cogito, and what does the ideological use of the word "nature" conceal?

Season 10

How does art pass, in Hegel's aesthetics, from the presence of the sacred to representation, and what relation does this movement of interiorization bear to the political?

Season 10

What does the geopolitical situation in eastern Europe and the Sahel reveal about the crisis of capitalism and the danger of war?

Season 10

Why is the danger of war, from the Sahel to the Russian-Ukrainian border, wrapped in silence, and what does this silence reveal, in the sense that "the death drives progress in silence"?

Season 10

Why does aesthetics remain tied to a political stake in Hegel, and why does the tragedy of Antigone still hold for the modern world?

Season 10

What relation, and what hierarchy, does Hegel establish between aesthetics and politics, based on the opposition between the family and the city embodied by Antigone?

On Michel Clouscard

How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and revealed by May 68, summed up in the formula "everything is permitted, but nothing is possible"?

On Michel Clouscard

How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and May 68, summed up in the formula "everything's allowed, but nothing is possible"?

Season 9.2

What grounds the determinability that the symbolic order brings out in Nerval's texts, and how does Nerval get out of the repetition of his fantasy?

Season 9.2

How can it be shown that the historical sciences have an object as rigorously determinable as that of the natural sciences?

Analytical Reveries

Where would we want to remain: what does the quest for lodging, in Nerval's Promenades et Souvenirs, becoming a quest for a voice, reveal?

Season 9.2

What distinguishes man from an "intelligent" machine, and how do debates on artificial intelligence take up problems already posed by Descartes?

Questions and answers

How does the passage from modal music to tonal music, starting with the legend of Paul the Deacon's "lost voice," mark the West's entry into modernity?

Season 9.2

How does the last act of Twilight of the Gods move from the cyclical repetition of myth to a woman's knowledge and the reign of man?

Analytical Reveries

What silent element links texts that are never brought together: the sound coming from the castle in Kafka, Mignon's song in Goethe, and the eternal feminine as commented on by Wagner?

Questions and answers

How should one answer public questions on interpretations of Wagner's Ring, on how to enter Clouscard's work, on political philosophy, and on what Marx brings to the reading of Phèdre?

Musicosophie

What does it mean to interpret a musical work, between improvisation, execution and the restitution of the composer's thought?

Musicosophie

What is musical in music?

Musicosophie

Does the distinction between pure music and program music hold, and what does it reveal about modernity?

Season 9.2

How does a mythic narrative such as Wagner's Ring, taken at its midpoint, reveal a rigorous logic, an "algebra" of gold and love, that the sciences of history and culture can bring out?

Musicosophie

What founds, since Plato, the complicity between music and philosophy?

Musicosophie

What does the conflict between Nietzsche and Wagner reveal, once we reread Nietzsche's texts while listening to the music?

Musicosophie

Why was the best German music, that of Wagner in particular, best conducted and expressed by Jews whom Germany drove out?

Season 9.2

How can understanding, the faculty of the sciences and of the "if… then," axiologically neutral, be put to the service of evil, and how does Wagner's Das Rheingold show this?

Musicosophie

Why does the history of music make happy and morbid musics alternate, and what is the happiness that they express?

Musicosophie

What distinguishes genre from form in music, and why is the so-called "jazz variation" of Beethoven's opus 111 not jazz?

Musicosophie

How does modern music, since Beethoven, oscillate between the popular demand for happiness and the romantic fascination with the death drive?

Musicosophie

Is the divorce between scholarly music and popular music that Lévi-Strauss notes in contemporary music a new symptom, and how can one think the union of speech and music up to the music of the future?

Musicosophie

How does the "people" music born in the 1950s enclose young people worldwide in sound ghettos, and how can one escape it?

Musicosophie

Why begin a history of music with its middle, with Schubert and the second act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger?

Season 9.1

How does the site dominiquepagani.fr organize access to the workshops, publications, texts, and musical resources?

Season 9.1

How does memory, which retains and names, confront the indeterminacy of origins, and how can one memory overdetermine others?

Season 9.1

Why can memory, which Greek myth conflates with language in the figure of Mnemosyne, not go without forgetting?

Season 9.1

Is memory the condition of happiness and identity, or is forgetting its condition instead?

Season 8

What becomes of art once aesthetic religion has disappeared, and what do we, moderns, gain from this loss?

Season 8

What relationship does the aesthetic field have with the political field, between the poet as bard of the collective and the poet of art for art's sake?

Season 7

What does the ongoing crisis reveal, read through Marx's dialectic and through the ideology of Heidegger, Jünger and Nietzsche documented by Domenico Losurdo?

Season 7

What does the polarity of white and red in the poetic imagination, from Chrétien de Troyes to Mallarmé and Nerval, say about our modernity?

Season 7

When is romanticism, the first expression of modernity, progressive, and when does it become reactionary in the face of access to absolute knowledge?

Season 7

How does romanticism, the first expression of modernity, express the unhappiness of absolute knowledge, and how can one escape it through a collective subject?

Season 6

Why does the access to absolute knowledge in modernity symmetrically engender the temptation of an absolute non-knowledge, which leads as far as Nazism?

Season 7

What form will the live sessions offered during the confinement take, and in what spirit?

At the Tropiques bookshop

What does Le voyage de la fanfare show, a novel about a brass band from Ajaccio invited in 1978 by Bokassa to the Central African Republic, about ordinary Corsican people and their encounter with Africa?

Season 5.2

How do revolutionary thought and the question "nature or landscape" fit together, and what distinguishes nature from landscape?

Season 5.2

How is the exterior, the landscape, interiorized by speech and music, and how does landscape differ from nature?

Other videos

Why is globalized, repetitive and binary music, broadcast everywhere since the 1950s, a music of enslavement and amnesia?

Season 5.2

Are nature and landscape interchangeable terms?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Is beauty a matter of individual taste, or can it be learned through an education that brings us into contact with works of art?

Other videos

How can Niger's traditional music be preserved and transmitted while opening its musicians to other repertoires?

Season 4

Is Angélique a disjointed text, or does it obey, beneath its digressions, a logic that is that of the dream?

Season 3

How does modernity, since the French Revolution, repeat the alternation of classicism and romanticism, and is this repetition a return to the same or a spiral?

Season 3

How can we assume the contradiction between the Greek and Christian heritages without falling back into the old counter-revolutionary thought that presents itself as new?

Season 3

Can man free himself from the fatality of the return of carnage, figured by Ulysses, through the labor that transforms reality, figured by Daedalus?

Season 2

How does the reading of Phèdre, which joins the highest poetic beauty to the most profound content, lead from the psychological unconscious to class unconscious, and is there a universal criterion of beauty?

On Michel Clouscard

What does Michel Clouscard's life tell us about his thought, and why does this long-ignored thought impose itself today?

Other videos

What do African Francophonie, the misreadings of Clouscard, and the fusion of genres reveal about the modernity born of the French Revolution?

Season 2

Why does philosophy, daughter of crisis, start from words of ordinary language, and what does modern poetry say about the historical moment named by the word "Occident"?

Hegel & Marx on the Beach

How does aesthetic appearance, down to the gleam of a look, express the material and historical richness of a world, and why does recognition between subjects pass through the thing?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

What does music teach us about the history of peoples, once we have defined what is properly musical in music?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What relation does music have with time, with language and, in Rousseau, with writing?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What brings baroque music and rock together, and what does this connection reveal about the relationship between popular and learned music?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

What does the notion of "consumer society" cover, and how does Clouscard's concept of libertarian liberalism allow us to analyze contemporary capitalism, down to musical consumption?

On Michel Clouscard

How does Michel Clouscard analyze the passage, since May 68, to a capitalism that exploits in production and liberates in consumption?

On Michel Clouscard

Why does Clouscard criticize "libertarian liberalism," and what becomes of this critique when applied to the state, the societal, and music?