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Short formats
Shorter than the workshops: the Alphabet, the music podcast, questions and answers, readings on the spot.
A Philosophical Alphabet
From Antigone to Zero, an alphabet made with friends from the Saint-Dizier Popular University.
Pagani Parle Musique
Dominique Pagani’s podcast, released weekly in spring and summer 2022: Mozart, Mulligan, Tchaikovsky, from Bach to the Pygmies, John Lewis, Beethoven, Bartók, Wagner, Nietzsche, Schubert.
Pagani Parle Musique • Introduction to the podcast3 min
POLYMORPHOUSLY PERVERSE MOZART • Pagani Parle Musique17 min
FREE GOLD FOR EVERYONE - MULLIGAN • Pagani Parle Musique17 min
Questions and answers
Dominique Pagani’s answers to questions from the audience: Wagner and his interpreters, balance in nature, Heidegger, a chapter of Marx written by Hegel, modal and tonal music, feminism, security…
Wagner and his interpreters, Approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani1 h 19
"Red-browns", "decolonial": Should we use the dominant language? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani1 h 42
A balance in nature? • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani41 min
Readings on the spot
Dominique Pagani reads and comments on a text: Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Aragon, Kleist, Rimbaud, from Plato to Proust.
Mallarmé, or class struggle on the lawn - Readings on the Spot15 min
Nietzsche, or the Great Ninny - Readings on the Spot19 min
Aragon "The Paris Peasant Sings" - Readings on the Spot26 min
A question to enter a season
The first session of each season, and the question it raises.
- Season 14 · Atlanticist renazification · 1 h 07Why, in the media uproar, is the history linking Atlanticist capitalism to Nazism and to the present danger of war passed over in silence?The silences of the media uproar - new cycle: the Atlanticist re-Nazification.
- Season 13 · Evil · 1 h 47How does Clouscard's thought, read from Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes and its relation to Rousseau, account for the present situation?Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle
- Season 12 · The elusive identity · 1 h 43What does the opposition between left and right mean today, and what does the term "Islamo-leftism" conceal?Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?
- Season 11 · Worldliness in Clouscard · 2 h 20How can philosophy, which hesitates between the rigor of mathematics and the language of poetry, take the subject into account?And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire
- Season 10 · Femininity and Community · 1 h 34What does Hegel's formula "this femininity, eternal irony of the community" mean, and why is the tension between family and city it designates still relevant today?10#1 The eternal irony of the community
- Season 9.2 · How Can Sciences of History Be Real? · 1 h 46How can sciences of history, that is, sciences of the human subject, attain a rigor really comparable to that of the sciences of nature?9 #11 How can sciences of history be real?
- Season 9.1 · The Benefits and Harms of Amnesia and Anamnesis · 1 h 35Is memory the condition of happiness and identity, or is forgetting its condition instead?#1 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
- Season 8 · Back to the Logics of the Subject · 1 h 04Does a privation of truth exist, a lie to oneself, that is not culpable, provided it is accompanied by social justice?#9 • Return to the logics of the subject
Start from a name
Each page gathers what he says, with the exact moment; the passages can be played one after another.
Start from a notion
Dominique Pagani's definitions, theses and distinctions, session by session.
How they are organised
14 workshop seasons, from 2014 to today, running from September to September, each following a thread: a work read closely, an author, a question taken up from one session to the next. Around them, series (Musicosophie, the podcast, the Alphabet, Clouscard…) and talks.