George W. Bush

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses George W. Bush mainly through the rhetoric of the "evil empire", which he analyses as a way of placing oneself on the side of good by pointing to the wicked ones, without ever saying what end is being pursued12. He sees in it the expression of the Western good conscience and of consensual values that one should be wary of. He contrasts this world of good against evil with tragedy3, and links it to sessions on Kant, Hegel and the question of evil as a "misknowing" of oneself. He often comes back to the Iraq war, waged in spite of the UN45, and calls Bush a "war criminal". He places him in continuity with Truman, as heir to absolute power, and as someone pushed forward, like Macron, by business circles6. He also mentions former French Trotskyists among his neoconservative advisers, as well as the ties between his family and the Bin Laden family.

1. 1Q comme Qualité31 Dec 2014 · 13:11
2. 2#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 57:54
3. 3Kant11 Dec 2015 · 1:15:21
4. 4Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 35:31
5. 5Le Mal ou la "déconnaissance" de soi2 Dec 2024 · 2:35
6. 6Monde d'avant, Monde d'après - 1ère partie16 Jan 2021 · 48:26

Summary produced automatically from 21 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.