Anaximandre

What Dominique Pagani says

What Dominique Pagani takes from Anaximander is above all the apeiron, the indeterminate, which Anaximander places at the origin of everything1. He renders it as "the contourless" and contrasts it with the peras, the clearly determined limit2. He sees in it what the Greeks dread3. In a session devoted to Lacan's text "Function and Field of Speech and Language," he presents this principle as locked in struggle with the peras and uses it as an image of the closure of the ego4. He also links the apeiron to a sensory experience, one that can be had at Cape Sounion5. Beyond this, he places Anaximander among the Presocratics whose problems are still debated6, among the predecessors whom Aristotle summarizes7, and as a thinker known mainly through Diogenes Laertius8. His mentions are brief and always point back to this tension between the unlimited and the limit.

1. 1La répression du sujet dans la société civile bourgeoise9 Aug 2025 · 28:48
2. 2#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:14:40
3. 3Freud1 Aug 2017 · 36:18
4. 4#6.1-1/2 - Prélude • D.Pagani / Lacan : Fonction et champs de la parole et du langage10 Nov 2019 · 1:25:55
5. 5#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 54:12
6. 6Mon éco-cabane dans la ZAD : autonomie ou aliénation ? • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani30 Apr 2021 · 8:15
7. 7Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 39:50
8. 810#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 51:00

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.