Servitude

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches servitude mainly through Rousseau, and almost always as part of a pair with domination. Against Aristotle, he takes up the argument that if there are slaves by nature, it is because there were first slaves against nature: force made the first slaves, and their cowardice perpetuated them, which opens the case against voluntary servitude12. He often returns to one point: Rousseau flees neither humanity nor society, but the society where servitude and domination reign, that is, the one that tears up the contract and brings a natural relation of force back into the human bond34. In 2019, he calls it class society. Law prescribed by other men belongs to this same relation. Finally, he places this pair in a line of descent: it prefigures the Hegelian dialectic of master and slave, which Marx takes up with class struggle and which culminates in Clouscard56.

1. 1#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 30:33
2. 2#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 50:41
3. 3#3 Le mythe du bon sauvage chez Rousseau !23 Sept 2014 · 28:55
4. 4Que faire ? 3/329 Jan 2016 · 25:43
5. 5Avec Clouscard2 Aug 2016 · 30:44
6. 6#5.4 Introduction / Nature ou Paysage ?25 Jan 2019 · 24:42

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