Season 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascismAchim von Arnim
Appears in 4 videos · 6 passages, 5 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani presents Achim von Arnim as a great Romantic writer, whom he nevertheless places on the side of counter-revolution and reaction. He returns several times to the same novella, The Heirs of the Entail (Les Héritiers du majorat). He first draws on its opening, which mourns the fullness of the world before the French Revolution and idealises institutions opposed to all change12. From 2024 onward, he also stresses the text's antisemitism: the novella shows the hatred aimed at the ghetto, which he describes as the district of the poor classes, and he also cites Isabella of Egypt3. He compares this way of speaking about the Jewish ghetto to the way a present-day fascist speaks about Arab neighbourhoods4. In 2026, he sees in the pairing of this nostalgia for the pre-Revolutionary world with an antisemitic passage a stage in the genesis of Nazism5. In 2020, he also takes Arnim as an example of the Romantics who locate truth in intuition rather than in the concept6.
- 1#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 36:02
- 2Le retour du fascisme4 Feb 2026 · 21:36
- 3L'après scrutin - Entrée en zone de turbulences11 Jul 2024 · 41:53
- 4Le retour du fascisme4 Feb 2026 · 31:15
- 5NÉOFASCISME ET IDÉOLOGIE DU DÉSIR : Michel CLOUSCARD toujours d'actualité ? - avec Dominique PAGANI23 May 2026 · 1:03:44
- 6#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 57:53
Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?
Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (26 January 1781 – 21 January 1831), better known as Achim von Arnim, was a German poet, novelist, and together with Clemens Brentano and Joseph von Eichendorff, a leading figure of German Romanticism.
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Season 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism
Talks · 23 May 2026NEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI- 1:03:44The EntailReactionary romantic: his short story couples nostalgia for the pre-Revolution with an antisemitic strain, the genesis of Nazism.
Season 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote - Entering a zone of turbulence- 41:53The Heirs of the EntailA great writer but antisemitic; his short story shows the hatred aimed at the ghetto, the district of the poor classes. He also cites Isabelle d'Égypte.
Season 9.1 · 10 Dec 2020#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia...