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Negative

négatif

Worked through in 14 videos · 18 passages.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani links the negative first of all to the preface of Hegel's Phenomenology. There, the "tremendous power of the negative" is the energy of thought that isolates what is real only in its connection1. Spirit wins its truth by looking the negative in the face and tarrying with it, and this tarrying converts it into being23. He sees negativity as Hegel's greatest discovery, for example in the now that maintains itself by suppressing the particular nows4. From this he draws a "positivity of the negative": in the Prometheus myth, man's superiority comes from a lack5, just as surplus value comes from unpaid labour. He also applies the negation of the negation to politics, with the return of the social in the yellow vests movement6. Finally, he finds the passage through the negative in the cross, in music that negates death without ignoring it, and in the Grail quest7.

  1. 1Hegel Plage 3/52 Feb 2016 · 1:12:05
  2. 2#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020 · 52:11
  3. 3La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 36:05
  4. 4Hegel Plage 3/52 Feb 2016 · 1:20:56
  5. 5La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 1:01:15
  6. 6Hegel et les gilets jaunes (1ère partie)13 Feb 2019 · 21:57
  7. 7La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 2:26:44

Summary produced automatically from 18 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Talks · 13 Feb 2019Hegel and the yellow vests (Part 1)
  1. 21:57The self-negation of the societal still asserts itself by negating itself; it remains to be seen whether the negation of the negative will produce something positive.
  2. 1:07:25The return of the social as a first negation, awaiting the second moment of negation which will produce something positive.

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