The Philosopher’s Odyssey: Nerval’s Angélique
Angélique, the first of Nerval’s Filles du feu, read closely according to what Dominique Pagani calls the “griot method”.
- 01
#4.1 Angélique (by Nerval)
Why read Nerval's Angélique, and how does this disjointed narrative, written in the middle of the century, lead from the mother's tomb to Rousseau's tomb?
- 02
#4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)
Is Angélique a disjointed text, or does it obey, beneath its digressions, a logic that is that of the dream?
- 03
#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)
How 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?
- 04
#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)
What 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?
- 05
#4.5 Angélique (by Nerval)
Does Nerval's itinerary in Angélique owe anything to chance, and what is meant by chance?
- 06
#4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)
Why does Angélique's journey, seemingly disjointed, converge on Rousseau's tomb at Ermenonville, and what does Nerval leave the reader once he has led him there?
- 07
#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)
What does the ending of Nerval's Angélique reveal, where the walk that moves away from Rousseau's tomb closes into a loop, and is this necessity of the text merely personal or universal?
- 08
#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)
In what sense is Nerval's quest for the mother, far from being a personal matter, connected to the universal, and what does modernity repress in its relation to art?
- 09
#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)
How is a rigorous, quasi-scientific reading of a literary text possible if an abyss separates the exact sciences from the field of human actions?
- 10
#4.0 Dominique Pagani, Presentation of the 2017-2018 workshop: Nerval's "Angélique"
Why devote the 2017-2018 workshop to a continuous reading of Nerval's Angélique in order to continue the path "from Ulysses to Daedalus, from repetition to liberation"?
- 11
#4.4B Objections to Dominique Pagani
Why go through Nerval and the concept of modernity to think the historical present, dominated by capital?