Don Juan

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani treats Don Juan as the figure of libertinism in morals, pointing out that the great libertines are all aristocrats1. He sees in him the lord of the sword nobility, who rules by force and seeks only pleasure: his enjoyment is that of the master2, and the play stages the relation between master and servant3. He links him to the negative freedom of the particular individual who plays his own card, for whom particular pleasures become absolute ends45. He returns several times to specific scenes: the feast scene, where a limitless desire accelerates6, Don Juan alone with his servant before the Commander arrives, and the scene with the poor man, where, cynical on the surface, he takes up the noble's role against the brigands before trying to buy a blasphemy7. He cites Molière, Mozart and Baudelaire, singles out the "mille e tre" as an example of hyperbole, and notes that the same theme can yield a masterpiece or a flop.

1. 1#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 59:23
2. 2Que faire ? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 22:25
3. 3Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 33:54
4. 4#4.9 Angélique (de Nerval)14 Jun 2018 · 1:44:02
5. 510#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 1:07:31
6. 6#5.2 L’Odyssée du philosophe : La pensée révolutionnaire21 Nov 2018 · 1:02:51
7. 7La religion de l'Argent29 Sept 2019 · 42:17

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