Adam

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns above all to one passage of Genesis: God gives Adam the privilege of naming the creatures. He sees it as an act of sovereignty, a "right of majesty" and a first appropriation of nature12. To name is to master, and in this man resembles God. He compares this privilege to the decree that turns a rock into a table, or to the power to establish measure. For him it is also the "Adamic stage" of speech, that of right names, which all great poetry seeks to recover34. He most often calls it the first act of the "tragedy of language," and once that of its "comedy." He also reads the Fall: Adam hides because he is naked, and this shame proves that he has tasted the fruit of knowledge. It marks the passage from animality to humanity. With clothing and labour "by the sweat of the brow," praxis begins56. Finally, he recalls that Adam, drawn from mud and animated by breath, is an artificial creature, and that his likeness to God lies in freedom7.

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