Opera
27 videos, newest first.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani approaches opera first as a fusion of the arts. Wagnerian drama arises from the union of text and music, and he links this fusion to the mixing of genres that characterises modernity, to which Rousseau, author of Le Devin du village, gives the answer1. He also sees in it the economic sphere expressing itself in displaced form: Das Rheingold stages the incompatibility of gold and love. From 2021 onward, he takes up Lévi-Strauss's remark that Wagner is the father of the structural analysis of myths. He then uses the Ring as a model of rigour for the sciences of history2 and reads Götterdämmerung as the passage from repetition to freedom3. In Mozart, from Così fan tutte to The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute, he hears the happiness that belongs to the tipping point between the Ancien Régime and the new world4. In 2024, he devotes a series to Parsifal. He reads it with Gracq and Hegel as a dialectic of the wound and salvation, against Nietzsche's rejection5. He also discusses Wagner's antisemitism.
- 1M comme Musique27 Dec 2014
- 29 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021
- 39 #19 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération • Partie 214 Apr 2021
- 4Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021
- 5Sauver le sauveur ? La rédemption - fin du cycle ou son recommencement ?21 Apr 2024
Introduction produced automatically from the 27 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 27 videos
Season 13The eternal return… of the death camps?
13 Oct 2024If everything is determined and returns eternally, is philosophy, which asks the question "what must I do?", still possible, and can one still deliver a message against evil?
Season 12The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present
4 Jun 2024Why does the fixation on the mother, which the second act of Parsifal stages, make the past be lived as a present, and how does this illusion concern modernity?
Season 12From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject
30 May 2024What does the separation of the Grail and the spear mean in the second act of Parsifal, and how can their reunion be understood as the passage from substance to subject?
Season 12Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning?
21 Apr 2024What does the final formula of Parsifal, "Redemption to the redeemer," mean: does redemption close the cycle or set it going again?
Pagani Parle MusiqueNIETZSCHE - NO PITY FOR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique
27 Jul 2022Why does Nietzsche, after condemning Parsifal as a Christian betrayal of the Greek ideal, recognize in its music the truth he had refused?
Pagani Parle MusiqueWAGNER - THE TRUTH OF PURE MUSIC • Pagani Parle Musique
20 Jul 2022What does music say when it says nothing, and how does instrumental music express what words dare not say?
Pagani Parle MusiquePOLYMORPHOUSLY PERVERSE MOZART • Pagani Parle Musique
1 Jun 2022How does Mozart's music unite libertinism and generosity, comedy and true emotion, gaiety and melancholy?
Pagani Parle MusiquePagani Parle Musique • Introduction to the podcast
23 May 2022What can we expect from speaking about music, and why deprive young people of music they are being denied?
Questions and answersThe feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner
6 Feb 2022Are femininity and feminism compatible or different?
Season 1010#1 The eternal irony of the community
22 Sept 2021What does Hegel's formula "this femininity, eternal irony of the community" mean, and why is the tension between family and city it designates still relevant today?
Analytical Reveries#3 Nomad or sedentary? - The case of Nerval
6 Jun 2021Where 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 9.29 #19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation • Part 2
14 Apr 2021How 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?
Season 9.29 #18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation
3 Apr 2021How does Wagner's Twilight of the Gods move from the circular time of fate, in which everything repeats, to the freedom of the world of men?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 14. Mozart once more
7 Feb 2021Why does Mozart's music, situated in the shift from the Ancien Régime to the new world, express that happiness which is, according to Saint-Just, a new idea in Europe?
Season 9.29 #14 How can sciences of history be real?
5 Feb 2021How can sciences of history be real, if the determinism of the natural sciences seems to exclude freedom?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 13. Mozart restored
2 Feb 2021What does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?
Season 9.29 #13 How can sciences of history be real?
29 Jan 2021How can sciences of history have a rigor with nothing to envy in the hard sciences, and what does Wagner's Das Rheingold show on this subject?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 6. The Jazz Variation... by Beethoven
15 Dec 2020What distinguishes genre from form in music, and why is the so-called "jazz variation" of Beethoven's opus 111 not jazz?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 1. Schubert and the master singers
3 Dec 2020Why begin a history of music with its middle, with Schubert and the second act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger?
Season 9.1#3 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
6 Nov 2020How do anamnesis and amnesia, individual and collective, work upon memory, and what does it mean for memory to be overdetermined?
Season 6#6.1-1/2 - Prelude • D.Pagani / Lacan: Function and field of speech and language
10 Nov 2019How do the death drive and the compulsion to repeat, as read in Freud and Lacan, shed light on the logic of the subject and on the reconstitution of Nazism?
Season 4#4.4B Objections to Dominique Pagani
4 Feb 2018Why go through Nerval and the concept of modernity to think the historical present, dominated by capital?
Season 4#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)
15 Jan 2018What does the comparison of Angélique and Aurélia reveal about the evaporation of the real into surface, about the notion of edge in Nerval, and about the possibility of a determinism of human affairs?
Season 4#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)
11 Dec 2017How can a literary text, that of a madman, achieve such rigor that it grounds a rationality in the human order, where Kant had separated nature and freedom by an unbridgeable abyss?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachMarx on the Beach 1/2
1 Feb 2016What does Marx mean when he affirms that men enter into relations of production independent of their will, and in what sense do these relations form "the unconscious of the unconscious"?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityMythology and Truth
8 Aug 2015Why does myth, which philosophy sought to set aside in favor of rational discourse, always come back, and what truth does it express?
A Philosophical AlphabetM for Music
27 Dec 2014What relation does music have with time, with language and, in Rousseau, with writing?