Éric Weil

French philosopher (1904–1977) · 1904–1977

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani cites Éric Weil almost always for a single thesis, taken from Hegel et l'État: the State Hegel speaks of is not the Prussian monarchy, and Hegel is not its spokesman1 2. He presents this book as a classic, which he sets against the reading that makes Hegel the official philosopher of the Prussian State. On this occasion, drawing on Weil, he points out that Hegel was on the contrary under police surveillance3. He notes that Weil is not a Marxist, which does not prevent him from refusing to reduce Hegel to a spokesman for the monarchy4. These mentions come up in varied contexts. In 2019 it is Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat; in 2020, a session on Marthe Robert; in 2021, a session devoted to Plato's Gorgias. In 2024 and 2025 come sessions on Clouscard and on naturalist ideology, where Weil is cited as the author of Hegel et l'État5. From one session to the next the point remains the same, and the passages say nothing else about his work.

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Who is this?

Éric Weil (; French:; 4 June 1904 – 1 February 1977) was a French-German philosopher noted for the development of a theory that places the effort to understand violence at the center of philosophy. Calling himself a post-Hegelian Kantian, Weil was a key figure in the 20th-century reception of Hegel in France, as well as the renewed interest in Kant in that country. The author of major original works, critical studies, and numerous essays in French his adopted language, as well as German and English, Weil was both an active academic as well as public intellectual. […]

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