Totalization

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani contrasts totalization, an ongoing process, with a completed totality. In Sartre, in his view, there is only a totalization that never arrives at a totality, because the individual remains primary1. He also reports that Sartre credits Michel Clouscard's L'Être et le Code with an ongoing totalization of a historico-genetic kind2. In Marx, the social is itself a totalization, that is, a socialization, whose end point is the association of workers3. He places post-structuralism at the opposite pole: this current refuses all totalization and conceives of a field without a centre, made of infinite substitutions4. He also uses the distinction to read Rousseau. The general will is never complete: it is a matter of totalization, not of a totality, which contradicts what critics of totalitarianism assume5.

1. 1Ce soir, on repolitise. 2ème partie31 Mar 2018 · 1:30:08
2. 2Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 2:23
3. 3Ce soir, on repolitise. 2ème partie31 Mar 2018 · 1:50:54
4. 4Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 13:46
5. 5Mon éco-cabane dans la ZAD : autonomie ou aliénation ? • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani30 Apr 2021 · 14:36

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