Opinion

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches opinion from two angles. On the philosophical level, he consistently defines it with the formula "me with the others without the true": it is café-counter talk, where truth is not the goal being pursued1. He groups it with sophistry and communication, as the opposite of philosophy and science2. He sees in it the doxa, a discourse that cannot justify itself, sometimes orthodox, most often the language of the passions3. In his view, geometry is necessary to break with the proliferation of the singularities of opinion, in which today's capitalism tries to confine people. On the historical and political level, he treats public opinion as a new actor since the Enlightenment and Voltaire. Modern power must convince it, even at the cost of deceiving it, particularly in order to wage war4. He takes the example of Vietnam and the phrase "yellowing the corpses"5. He concludes from this that the abundance of propaganda is a reason for hope, since it shows that people's consent is needed.

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