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Dominique Pagani does not primarily associate revolution with barricades. He sees it as a radical change that can be silent and peaceful1. With Hegel, he thinks of it within a dialectic of evolution and revolution: slow quantitative growth leads to a qualitative leap, like the newborn's first breath2. The word comes from astronomy. In Kant, a revolution in thought brings physics into science. He distinguishes revolt, which is necessary, from revolution, which passes through a theoretical detour; without that detour, revolt plays into the hands of counter-revolution3. He places our modernity in three upheavals: the English industrial revolution, the French Revolution and nascent Romanticism. For him, since the Bastille, revolution and counter-revolution have alternated constantly, and the counter-revolutionary periods are the longer ones4. In Hegel, what is revolutionary about the Revolution is the fluidification of human relations and the end of the fear of death5. He also points out that the word has been misappropriated, for instance in Pétain's "national revolution".

  1. 1#5 Libéralisme-libertaire, consommation libidinale et musique...27 Sept 2014 · 6:49
  2. 2#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 2:11:52
  3. 3Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 1:17:02
  4. 4Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 17:25
  5. 5#5.2 L’Odyssée du philosophe : La pensée révolutionnaire21 Nov 2018 · 28:03

Summary produced automatically from 39 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Season 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism
  1. 19:30The French Revolution is not reducible to the abolition of privileges: in it the French got rid of the fear of death.
  2. 1:01:59Revolution presupposes a theory: without revolutionary theory, no revolutionary practice; the Age of Enlightenment preceded it.
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The World Before, The World After - Part 1
  1. 7:56True revolutions, like the French Revolution after the English industrial revolution, are breaks from which our modernity emerged, incomparable to the "revolutions" announced today.
  2. 34:08Revolution is not necessarily progress: Pétain and the Nazis spoke of national revolution; concepts become perverted in troubled times.
Season 7 · 30 Mar 2020#2 - Harnessed to Confinitude
  1. 37:49The conflict between absolute knowledge and absolute non-knowledge is that of revolution and counter-revolution, running through the nineteenth century up to today.
  2. 55:19We are neither in a revolutionary period nor in a counter-revolutionary one, but in the conflict of the two: that is what being dialectical means.
Talks · 6 Oct 2018Dominique Pagani "On Marx"
  1. 59:18Revolution can take a thousand forms and be silent, like the emergence of hundreds of millions of Chinese from poverty.
  2. 1:00:16The distortion between today's productive forces and nineteenth-century capitalist relations of production is going to make the elastic band snap.

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