Reactionary

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani defines the reactionary with a formula he repeats from 2014 to 2026: a conservative who has been frightened. Where the conservative wants to maintain the status quo, the reactionary reacts against a social or revolutionary advance. He has a score to settle, he has "learned nothing and forgotten nothing", and he has become nastier, and therefore more dangerous12. He gives as examples the émigrés of the Restoration and Nazism34. At the philosophical level, he links the reactionary attitude to the return to substance, the nostalgia for which forms the common genus of a very broad category, ranging from the petty bourgeois to counter-revolutions5. In his view, the idea of restoration is born of amnesia, and he refuses, with D'Hondt, to make Hegel the philosopher of the Restoration. He places Nietzsche in the old reactionary right, treats the indictment of consumption as an old right-wing theme, and distinguishes the need for security from its reactionary use, which diminishes the collective and the State.

1. 1#2 - Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude30 Mar 2020 · 58:44
2. 2Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 10:31
3. 3#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 41:55
4. 4Le retour du fascisme4 Feb 2026 · 27:33
5. 5#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 27:46

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