Death

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches death mainly through Hegel. He sees it as the "absolute master", the only concept that escapes dialectic and the relativity of the relation between master and slave12. Before it, the slave feels anguish for the whole of his essence3. He specifies that what founds the human is not death itself but awareness of finitude, which marks the passage from zoology to anthropology4. Man is the animal that knows it will die, and this knowledge, which the gods lack, gives value to what is precarious5. This awareness strips the natural given of its interest. Social praxis then produces another world to overcome this loss67. He also links death to funeral rites, which raise the singular to the universal, to the life of spirit, which "maintains itself" in death, to Pascal, to Freud, and to music, which opens side doors in the corridor leading to death.

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