Absolute

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches the absolute first through Hegel. He distinguishes a theological and speculative absolute from an earthly absolute, the State, and notes that Jacques D'Hondt keeps as far as possible from both1. In his view, the absolute idea, which concludes the Science of Logic, is the moment when Hegel comes closest to the representation of God2. He also points out that Lenin sees it as the chapter that is at once the most idealist and the most materialist3. In the sessions on art, he specifies that what comes to an end in Hegel is not art itself but its claim to embody the absolute. Politics takes over: against Novalis, for whom poetry is the absolute real, Hegel conceives the absolute as political in essence, that is, the general will and freedom45. He also links the absolute to the principle from which everything is deduced in the metaphysical stage, which inherits it from religion6. Later, discussing the Grail, he makes the absolute the spiritual invariant of the quest: God, the end point that closes the quest, the harbour where one stops sailing78.

1. 1Hommage à Jacques D'Hondt (1)2 Aug 2016 · 4:40
2. 2"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 26:43
3. 3Hommage à Jacques D'Hondt (1)2 Aug 2016 · 46:24
4. 4#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 0:13
5. 5#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 1:04:25
6. 6#4.9 Angélique (de Nerval)14 Jun 2018 · 21:57
7. 7La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 27:10
8. 8Sauver le sauveur ? La rédemption - fin du cycle ou son recommencement ?21 Apr 2024 · 22:24

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