Icare

Summary

From 2015 to 2025, Dominique Pagani makes Icarus a recurring figure of hubris: the one who goes too high, encroaches on the domain of the gods and is punished for it1. He speaks of "excess upwards" and defines him, in a paradoxical phrase, as "the one who fell upwards"2. He contrasts him with his father Daedalus, with whom he flies off but whose sense of measure he lacks, and that is why he falls3. He links this figure to a Greek aesthetic lesson: the vertical thrust of the columns, comparable to that of Icarus, is tempered by the tympanum or pediment of the temple, which brings things back to measure45. In recent sessions, Icarus becomes the example of the crime of "too much" in his reflection on Evil6. He also brings him up when reading Hölderlin, Nerval, Chateaubriand or Rimbaud, and quotes the line about "the sea that saw Icarus fall".

1. 1#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 53:14
2. 2Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 1:45:52
3. 3La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le monde comme "ruse de la raison"22 Jul 2023 · 1:16:27
4. 4Education : le Beau s'apprend-il ?20 Jul 2018 · 1:20:31
5. 5Le Mal ou la "déconnaissance" de soi2 Dec 2024 · 32:49
6. 6Le Mal ou la "déconnaissance" de soi2 Dec 2024 · 13:09

Summary produced automatically from 22 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.