Romanticism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani distinguishes two senses of Romanticism. In the strict sense, it is a dated movement, from 1820 or 1821 to 1853. In the broad sense, he takes it in the Hegelian sense of the modern: it is the first expression of modernity, which we never leave, so that nothing is more Romantic than the critique of Romanticism12. Since the Revolution, neoclassicisms and returns of the original Romanticism have alternated3. He regards Romanticism as ambivalent, like civil society: it can feed the worst reaction as well as what is most innovative45. He places the first occurrence of the word in Rousseau, with reference to English-style gardens as opposed to the geometric French garden6. He contrasts German Romanticism, which came earlier and is closer to Baudelaire and the avant-gardes, with French Romanticism, a prisoner of the alexandrine7. He points out several of its features: night, escape, the self of feeling, and melancholy turned into voluptuousness.

1. 1#4 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude11 Apr 2020 · 52:18
2. 2#15 Nietzsche : Pertinence philosophique ou musicale ? Réponses aux questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:42:51
3. 3Chateaubriand26 Mar 2019 · 1:12:42
4. 4Musicosophie 5. Bonheur contre pulsion de mort en musique11 Dec 2020 · 51:54
5. 5Dominique Pagani - Qui se cache sous les surfaces ? Esthétique et politique20 May 2022 · 4:19
6. 6#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 29:48
7. 7Dominique Pagani - Qui se cache sous les surfaces ? Esthétique et politique20 May 2022 · 43:19

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