Community

Summary

Dominique Pagani distinguishes community from society: community is narrower, and not every society is communal1. Drawing on the distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, he presents community as absolute spirit realised: a people as substance, a citizen as actual consciousness2. He returns several times to Antigone. In his view, it is not an individual who rises up against the city there, but one community against another: the family, founded on blood, against the city, whose bond is more spiritual. This corresponds to the passage from the genos, the clan, to the city34. Community preserves itself by consuming the separatism of families and creates itself in what it represses5. In Rousseau, Clarens and Julie embody an ideal community6. He also gives a warning: a community that is too homogeneous is exclusive, dreams of itself as aristocratic and decollectivises. For him, communitarianism is an abstract society that sets communities against one another in the street instead of forming a society78.

1. 1#2.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Mar 2016 · 2:16
2. 210#1 L’éternelle ironie de la communauté22 Sept 2021 · 22:36
3. 3#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020 · 27:00
4. 4La PHILO avec PAGANI : A comme ANTIGONE20 Mar 2023 · 13:38
5. 510#1 L’éternelle ironie de la communauté22 Sept 2021 · 52:33
6. 6W comme Wolmar6 Jan 2015 · 5:16
7. 7#2.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Mar 2016 · 12:41
8. 8#15 • Retour aux logiques du sujet23 Jul 2020 · 50:32

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