Liberation

libération

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani prefers to speak of liberation rather than freedom. For him, liberation is not a quality one possesses: it is a movement, an act by which one breaks out of a prior determination, and the suffix itself indicates that it is a process1 2. He sees in it the true synthesis between two abstract universals, freedom and determinism, which it dismisses alike: one starts from determined situations in order to free oneself, and praxis is the mediation of this passage3 4. He takes as an image the Dutch reclaiming land from the North Sea5. He connects liberation to Hegel, for whom history realises concrete freedom, and to material progress, such as the washing machine or workers' struggles. In Nerval, the figure of Daedalus and the passage from the mother's tomb to Rousseau's open repetition towards a collective emancipation6 7. Regarding Wagner, he describes the artist who awaits his liberation from the spirit of the people.

Summary produced automatically from 21 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Talks · 27 Mar 2023Interview with Dominique Pagani, praxis and psyche

16:04To speak of liberation rather than freedom: a movement, an action, not a quality possessed.
49:33Kant defines freedom negatively; Hegel sees in history the realization of concrete freedom.

Season 11 · 14 Jan 2023Beware of misreadings!! Clouscard and the ideology of desire, in homage to Le Précepteur

43:57What frees people from the puritan straitjacket is always tied to a certain wealth; workers' struggles extended sexual liberation.

Series · 12 Jul 2022Security: Is it conservatism or Revolution? - Dominique Pagani

5:34The elementary security provided by hospital staff is a liberation for whoever receives it.

Series · 6 Feb 2022The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner

28:43Elsa, spirit of the people, makes Wagner a complete revolutionary: he awaits from her his liberation as an artist.

Season 9.2 · 30 Jun 20219 #24 "Ruled like music paper!" • Nerval • Baudelaire • Part 2

1:23:48Daedalus, the engineer, climbs back out of the labyrinth; Nerval, by heading toward the sage's grave, escapes repetition and collectivizes his problem.

Series · 30 Apr 2021My eco-cabin in the ZAD: autonomy or alienation? • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani

15:18The act of freeing oneself from a prior determination, as the Dutch did in conquering territory from the North Sea.

Season 9.2 · 14 Apr 20219 #19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation • Part 2

35:53Psyche, a pure expression of the involuntary, makes Wagner a complete revolutionary; she is the spirit of the people from whom the artist awaits his liberation.

Series · 15 Dec 2020Musicosophy 6. The Jazz Variation... by Beethoven

59:17The music that freed learned music from its impasse comes from the most oppressed fraction of humanity.

Talks · 21 Sept 2019Pagani without detours

32:47Synthesis of determination and freedom: one starts from determined situations in order to become free.

Season 5.1 · 21 Nov 2018#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought

1:48:12One moves from freedom, an ontological predicate, to liberation, an act to get out of a determination; praxis is its mediation.
1:48:52The meaning of history is freedom: one, then a few, then all are free; this meaning is not totalitarian.

Season 4 · 15 Jan 2018#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)

1:46:06The empty tomb of Rousseau, author of the Social Contract, gives the milk of the strong: a nourishment man needs, no longer tied to a personal history.

Season 4 · 18 Oct 2017#4.1 Angélique (by Nerval)

1:22:56For the first time in Nerval, repetition opens toward liberation: from the mother's tomb to Rousseau's tomb.
1:28:06We move from the personal novel to collective emancipation.

Season 4 · 24 Sept 2017#4.0 Dominique Pagani, Presentation of the 2017-2018 workshop: Nerval's "Angélique"

3:43Term toward which the cycle tends, figured by Daedalus.
12:14The small hole of the letter that opens Ulysses's circle might perhaps, with Daedalus, allow liberation from the cycle.

Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus

20:22Neither determinism nor given freedom: the movement by which one passes from the determined to the free; the suffix denotes a process, not a quality.

Season 1 · 28 Jan 2016#1.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?

1:48:35Freedom has long been realized: men progressively free themselves from the constraints of natural being-there.
1:52:22Liberation is the true synthesis that sets aside both freedom and determinism, two abstract universals.

Series · 17 Dec 2014C for Consumption

6:57The washing machine ends the slavery of laundry and frees women to go to work.