Immanence

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani starts from the etymology: immanere is what remains there, somewhat hidden beneath, and not in another world1. He first sets the immanent against the transcendent. In animist religions and in the Greek world, the divine is inside things: nymphs live in the springs, Poseidon in the ocean. He specifies that this is the divine, not God23. For him this world of immanence is perilous and tragic: one can cross over into the divine without noticing and commit hubris, which tragedy comes to purge4. He also distinguishes the immanent from the transitive: in Spinoza, God is the immanent cause of the world, which he creates simply by being, outside time5. He applies the notion to the organism, whose parts conspire6, to the correspondences between the senses, and to the Kantian transcendental. Christianity, with Descartes, hunts down immanence, but it also unites immanence and transcendence in the incarnation.

1. 1Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 40:48
2. 2Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 1:19:05
3. 3Les fondements de la distinction platonicienne et aristotélicienne5 May 2026 · 12:14
4. 4Les fondements de la distinction platonicienne et aristotélicienne5 May 2026 · 57:35
5. 5"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 20:13
6. 69 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021 · 37:08

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