Göring

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Hermann Göring only briefly, always as an ironic example or a counter-example, never for his own sake. He first uses him to distinguish Nietzsche's overman from what was made of it: the Übermensch is not what Göring made of it1. The same ironic example comes back in a talk about Michel Clouscard2. He also links Göring to the belief in a Reich established for a thousand years. He raises this first in connection with revolutionary thought, then in a session devoted to Karl Popper34. In 2025, he presents him as the counter-example of the "pure Aryan": through his physique, Göring himself contradicts the ideal of the blond overman56. These last two mentions come in sessions on imaginary identity and on naturalist ideology. For Dominique Pagani, Göring thus serves to bring out the gap between a proclaimed racial model and the people supposed to embody it.

1. 1U comme Übermensch4 Jan 2015 · 5:54
2. 2Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 2/28 Dec 2015 · 41:27
3. 3#5.2 L’Odyssée du philosophe : La pensée révolutionnaire21 Nov 2018 · 38:13
4. 4Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 43:26
5. 5L'identité imaginaire15 May 2025 · 51:21
6. 6L'idéologie naturaliste / Réponses aux questions - Dominique Pagani25 Jul 2025 · 1:11:46

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.