Brigitte Bardot

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani does not analyse Brigitte Bardot at any length. He uses her mainly as an example, most often when he deals with the question of beauty. In 2016 she illustrates the canon of beauty as the dogmatist conceives it1. She also serves, in a playful tone, as an example of the empirical answer to the question "what is beauty?": one answers by pointing to a case instead of giving a definition2. In 2017 he places her next to a sunset among the objects that are called beautiful3. In 2026 he cites her as the model of cinematic beauty, which he contrasts with callipygian beauty4. Elsewhere she appears only in jokes in which he links her to Sacha Distel, in a session on Nerval and in a session on the logics of the subject56. From one period to the next her role stays the same: a familiar example that makes a theoretical question about the beautiful concrete.

1. 1Que faire ? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 47:05
2. 2#2.2 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?15 Feb 2016 · 44:19
3. 3#3.5 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 37:01
4. 4Langage et pensée : Le cas Lavoisier13 Apr 2026 · 13:14
5. 5#4.8 Angélique (de Nerval)16 May 2018 · 1:43:56
6. 6#16 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 Jul 2020 · 54:20

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.