Time

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes up the distinction between space, the order of simultaneities, and time, the order of successions1. From it he draws the opposition between the plastic arts and music, though he considers this opposition in need of nuance2. He makes Lévi-Strauss's formula, according to which music, like myth, "enters time only to leave it", the essence of all music: musical time suspends the time of worries and makes something outside time last34. He distinguishes the predictable, circular time of destiny, which he calls a false time, from human time, which is blurred by freedom5. On the philosophical level, he recalls that with Kant time becomes the a priori form of all intuitions, and that Hegel defines time as he defines man: "the concept itself existing"6. He also links the awareness of time to desire and lack, and describes happiness as a day "made long", a dilation of the present.

1. 19 #23 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss9 Jun 2021 · 1:41:59
2. 2Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 46:28
3. 3SCHUBERT - LES CAPTIVES DIVINES • Pagani Parle Musique3 Aug 2022 · 0:00
4. 4SCHUBERT - LES CAPTIVES DIVINES • Pagani Parle Musique3 Aug 2022 · 3:33
5. 5Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021 · 14:01
6. 6LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:20:15

Summary produced automatically from 38 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.