Decision

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes up decision in a cycle of sessions from autumn 2022, devoted to the back-and-forth between hesitation and decision1. He presents decision as the antonym of hesitation. He takes as its figure Alexander's gesture of cutting the Gordian knot2: a decision taken all at once, which brings one out of a deadlock and characterises the man of action3. He follows this passage from hesitation to decision in literary and operatic heroes. In Chrétien de Troyes, after the Grail messenger's rebuke, Perceval leaves the court: one then passes from the hesitation of the best to its opposite4. In Wagner, the second act of Siegfried ends on a decision he calls "solar"5. He also comes back to the moment when Siegfried passes from hesitation to the decision to cross the flames, brought back to reality by the dragon6.

1. 1Dialectiques de l'hésitation et de la décision13 Nov 2022 · 26:39
2. 2L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 1:38:47
3. 3Dialectiques de l'hésitation et de la décision13 Nov 2022 · 12:22
4. 4LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:11:57
5. 5L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 22:08
6. 6L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 2:08:30

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.