Restoration

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes the term restoration in a sense that is both political and philosophical. He sees it first as a word with strong political connotations: since the French Revolution, he says, we have been living through an unceasing struggle between revolution and counter-revolution1. In this struggle, the time of restorations has been the longest, and he places the opening of the third of them at the fall of the USSR2. On the philosophical level, he describes restoration as what the modern mind expects from philosophy: to restore lost substantiality, the "compact solidity of being". He calls this demand counter-revolutionary3. He links it to the refusal of the splitting of the subject, which amounts to "suturing at all costs"4. He draws a direct political consequence from it: the restoration of substance is, in his view, at the root of the march towards neo-fascism5.

1. 1#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 28:34
2. 2#15 • Retour aux logiques du sujet23 Jul 2020 · 31:55
3. 3Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 1:08:17
4. 4Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 1:49:34
5. 5#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 1:09:22

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