What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani reads the words of Jesus in the Gospel in a secular way. On the Mount of Olives and on the cross, he sees God taking on anguish and fully accomplishing the human condition, with no guaranteed happy ending12. He often comments on "my kingdom is not of this world." He first sees in it Christian dualism, then, from 2018 on, a reading in which "this world" of servitude, even of capitalism, can be transformed34. He notes that Jesus names the devil "prince of this world," whose essence is the lie, and that the only unforgivable sin is the sin against the spirit56. He quotes the saying that the spirit is like the wind, which he links to freedom. He asks whether Jesus was a communist: the rich young man and the merchants in the Temple argue for it, "Render unto Caesar" against it7. He also links him to the Grail, to the figure of the Syrian in Hölderlin, and to Nazi antisemitism, which puts him together with Marx.
- 1Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 2:41:42
- 2Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 15:27
- 3#4.9 Angélique (de Nerval)14 Jun 2018 · 38:53
- 4La mondanité chez Clouscard ou les privilèges pour tous18 May 2023 · 1:11:52
- 5La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 36:27
- 6#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:40:24
- 7La mondanité chez Clouscard ou les privilèges pour tous18 May 2023 · 1:53:47
Summary produced automatically from 132 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Season 6 · 19 Feb 2020#6.5 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 16:06Facing the adulterous woman, he does not condemn: his word overturns guilt-inducing morality.
- 29:17"I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it": to fulfill is to suppress.
- 32:50The law of retaliation held because men's hearts were hardened: he introduces a historical dimension.
- 45:50"My kingdom is not of this world" secularizes the relation to the world.
Season 11 · 18 May 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all- 1:11:52"My kingdom is not of this world": taken literally, this refers to this world here, which can be transformed.
- 1:18:51Facing the adulterous woman, he does not forgive, he does not condemn: "I judge no one".
- 1:53:47Was he a communist? The rich young man and the merchants of the temple say yes, "Render unto Caesar" says no.
Season 12 · 4 Jan 2024I am not who you think I am - The elusive identity- 42:27On the Mount of Olives, he balks before the ordeal: God espouses human anguish.
- 53:26Tells the rich young man to leave his possessions and follow him.
Season 11 · 26 Apr 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or "The dominant ideology"- 25:00"If you drink this water, you will thirst again": a saying about one who withdraws from the world.
- 36:27In the last conversation with his disciples, "the prince of this world is coming, his essence is lying."
- 45:24Evil is defined as lying, which is not the child's lie but the lie to oneself.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:29:51"I judge no one"; only the sin against the spirit is unforgivable.
- 1:48:34"It is impossible that scandal should not come," a phrase noted by Kierkegaard.
Season 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self- 19:58One of three who did good for mankind, according to Hölderlin.
- 41:38In the previous discussion, announces the prince of this world already defeated and gives the commandment "love one another."
Season 13 · 20 Sept 2024Sickness, misfortune, evil- 18:27Answers the apostles that the Spirit is like the wind, which blows where it wills: a figure of freedom.
- 28:49"Ecce Homo" designates Christ covered in wounds, a formula Nietzsche takes up.
Season 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject- 20:43His birth is preceded by the massacre of the innocents.
- 36:34The Grail is the vessel that gathered his blood; one must pass through Good Friday to reach Easter.
Season 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?- 13:21A word for Maundy Thursday: the prince of this world is already defeated, for his essence is lies.
- 1:52:47He drives the merchants from the temple and tells the rich young man to leave his goods; but his kingdom is not of this world.
Season 12 · 12 Dec 2023"I is another", or contradictory identity- 18:26By the incarnation and the sacrifice of the son, God is both transcendent and immanent: a contradiction within.
- 1:01:05"Whoever wants to save his life will lose it": this is dialectic.
- 1:52:44The abandonment on the Mount of Olives figures the distress of the newborn.
Season 11 · 9 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard - The clash of worlds?- 8:20The negative evangelical words about the world, "my kingdom is not of this world."
- 1:18:31The spirit is like the wind, of which one knows neither where it comes from nor where it goes: freedom.
Talks · 19 Mar 2022Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poetry and politics- 1:02:58Last divine presence, which announces the end of day and leaves gifts as a pledge of its return.
- 1:07:50The Syrian, torch-bearer among the shadows.
Season 10 · 10 Feb 2022#9 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION: Art, seen from here or from the other side?- 1:12:42Immense crucified figure, hands splayed, body covered with pustules in the altarpiece.
- 1:57:00The Passion ends well: no Christian tragedy.
Season 10 · 23 Dec 202110#7 "Post-modern" eco-petty-Nazism - Plato's Gorgias- 22:38Episode of the rich young man: "leave your possessions, follow me."
Season 10 · 24 Nov 202110#5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last...- 1:14:04His answer on the law of talion is one of the earliest forms of historical relativism.
- 2:13:35Those who say "Lord, Lord" and insult their brothers.
Series · 23 May 2021From the lost voice to the path of modernity • From modal music to tonal music • D Pagani- 16:25His crucifixion, his descent into hell to deliver Adam, and his resurrection punctuate the Easter ritual during which Paul the Deacon loses his voice.
Season 9.1 · 24 Dec 2020#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia...- 35:08Classed by the Nazis in the same "breed" coming from the Orient.
- 1:25:56He compares the spirit to the wind, whose origin and destination are unknown: the spirit is linked to freedom.
Season 8 · 11 Jun 2020#10 • Return to the logics of the subject- 42:54In the Gospel, he says that the spirit is like the wind that blows where it wills, which brings the spirit close to freedom.
Talks · 29 Sept 2019The religion of Money- 24:10He drives the merchants from the temple and states that one cannot worship both God and Mammon.
Season 5.2 · 29 Jul 2019#5.9 Kafka: An Imperial Message- 40:25In the parable of the Pharisee and the publican, Christ says that the publican who dares not enter is close to him.
Season 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019#5.8 Nature or Landscape?- 39:47During the last conversation on Maundy Thursday, he designates Satan as "prince of this world," whose essence is lying.
Talks · 6 Oct 2018Dominique Pagani "On Marx"- 3:34"My kingdom is not of this world" can mean that we must change worlds; he drives the merchants out of the Temple.
- 47:29That what men have made can be unmade is good news, which is what the Gospel means.
Talks · 20 Jul 2018Education: can the Beautiful be learned?- 52:50The parable of the Pharisee and the publican: the true believer is the one who is ashamed of his sins.
Talks · 2 Jul 2018Tribute to Domenico Losurdo- 1:18:21"All these are my mother and my brothers": the Gospel is not familial, and that is already a progress.
Season 4 · 14 Jun 2018#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)- 38:53"My kingdom is not of this world": that world can be that of capitalism, which can be changed.
Talks · 12 Jun 2018In conversation: Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1 June 2018- 1:56:33"My kingdom is not of this world": this world of servitude and domination.
Season 4 · 11 Dec 2017#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)- 35:04"My kingdom is not of this world": Christian dualism.
- 1:03:13His only anger: he drives the merchants from the Temple.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 15:27His anguish on the Mount of Olives and his cry on the cross show there is no guaranteed happy ending.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 46:52"Be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect": infinity.
- 1:40:24The rich young man, the adulterous woman, "I judge no one"; the only unforgivable sin is against the spirit.
Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 5:32His death precedes Pentecost.
- 52:21The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector: the tax collector is closer to him.
Series · 2 Aug 2016With Clouscard- 1:04:44"My kingdom is not of this world": the notion of world comes from the Gospel. He shows violence only in driving the merchants from the Temple.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 4/5- 41:25'My kingdom is not of this world': Christian opposition to the world.
- 2:13:38Christ suffering on the cross brings to the divine the dimension of evil and suffering.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 1/5- 2:41:42Secular reading: in the Garden of Olives and on the cross, he knows anguish and fully accomplishes the human condition.
Season 1 · 28 Jan 2016#1.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:05:37A suffering figure on the cross, the endpoint of the progression toward the deepening of the human.
- 1:08:44He does not condemn the flesh or Mary Magdalene; the only sin on which he is uncompromising is lying.
- 1:32:45The spirit like the wind, whose source one does not know.
Season 1 · 11 Dec 2015#1.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 14:32Announces to the apostles that the prince of this world is coming; "my kingdom is not of this world."
- 1:40:37"Render unto Caesar" disjoins the temporal from the spiritual; the saying about the camel and the needle puts the rich man in difficulty.
Series · 8 Dec 2015Dominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 1/2- 19:16During his last conversation with the apostles, he names the devil "prince of this world": this is the theological use of the notion of world.
Talks · 26 Apr 2015The Music of History- 1:46:03at the Mount of Olives, he fears death and assumes the human condition
Season 14 · 28 Aug 2026From Copernicus to Lenin: Revolution!- 38:18"My kingdom is not of this world": in the desert, salvation can only come from above.
Season 14 · 5 May 2026The foundations of the Platonic and Aristotelian distinction- 11:15"My kingdom is not of this world" expresses a religion of transcendence.
- 56:55Words from the Gospel cited for the Christian dualism of soul and body.
Season 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar - new cycle: the Atlanticist re-Nazification.- 47:03For a Nazi, Marx like Jesus falls under the same Jewish pity.
Season 13 · 15 May 2025Imaginary identity- 42:05Was not white, according to the student.
- 1:06:35The mote and the beam: clean house at home first.
Season 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens- 18:15For the Nazis, Jesus is a Jew, linked to pity.
Season 13 · 13 Oct 2024The eternal return… of the death camps?- 52:13In Pascal's text, he answers the soul of the sinner who believes himself unworthy of grace.
Season 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle- 44:47Mentioned with regard to the Nazi discourse on the Judeo-Bolshevik peril.
Season 12 · 4 Jun 2024The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present- 47:42Kundry laughed as he passed on the way to Calvary, and he turned around.
- 1:02:28The wound in his side is the matricial wound whose blood is gathered by the Grail.
Season 12 · 21 Apr 2024Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning?- 35:39The spear pierced his side; the Grail collected his blood.
- 1:07:57No resurrection without a descent into hell.
Season 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?- 27:10The Grail is said to be the vessel that collected his blood.
- 40:04The Last Supper: take and eat, this is my body.
Season 11 · 3 Sept 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom??- 1:16:45He compares the Spirit to the wind, of which one knows neither where it comes from nor where it goes.
Talks · 29 May 2023Dominique Pagani: From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment- 15:20"My kingdom is not of this world": religions of transcendence.
Talks · 27 Mar 2023Interview with Dominique Pagani, praxis and psyche- 40:23The Grail and the lance that pierced his side, sacralization of the weapon.
Season 11 · 12 Dec 2022Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval- 28:10The Grail gathered his blood, the spear pierced his side.
- 1:11:32He is said to have turned toward Kundry, who laughed at Golgotha.
Season 11 · 23 Nov 2022THE APORIAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY- 1:10:36The Grail gathered his blood, the spear pierced his side.
Series · 27 Jul 2022NIETZSCHE - NO PITY FOR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique- 11:54"My kingdom is not of this world": the opposite of Greek this-worldly optimism.
- 15:08For Nietzsche, one is either for Christ or for Zarathustra.
Season 10 · 10 Jun 2022#14 Caves of Yesterday and Today - From Plato to modernity- 19:07After his Passion, the Spirit descends upon the apostles gathered in the Upper Room.
Series · 5 Mar 2022Panzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature. Heidegger/Descartes- 42:09One did not pass from paganism to Christianity all at once at its birth.
Season 10 · 24 Feb 2022#10 UKRAINE: From the problem of "Edges" to the unleashing of war- 1:24:04The parable of the mote and the beam, applied to the lessons in human rights given by NATO.
Season 10 · 6 Oct 202110#2 Dialectics of identity and difference- 1:09:08Third figure in Hölderlin's poem alongside Heracles and Dionysus.
Series · 21 May 2021Heidegger, or Panzer Philosophy • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani- 16:53For the Nazis, Jesus and Marx, "they're Jews"; rejection of the idea of turning the other cheek.
Season 9.2 · 12 May 20219 #21 Science and/or philosophy of "Artificial Intelligence"- 59:07The spirit is like the wind that blows where it wills.
Season 9.2 · 29 Jan 20219 #13 How can sciences of history be real?- 2:24The only one, along with Napoleon, about whom more books have been written than about Wagner.
Series · 28 Jan 2021Musicosophy 12. Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner- 1:37:26The only one about whom more has been written than about Wagner.
Series · 18 Jan 2021Musicosophy 10. The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner- 12:52Figure for whom asylum patients take themselves.
- 1:19:33Christianity, founded by a Jew, is targeted by Nazi fantasy.
Series · 11 Jan 2021Musicosophy 8. Happiness and unhappiness in music- 53:06"My kingdom is not of this world": beatitude is extra-worldly.
Series · 11 Dec 2020Musicosophy 5. Happiness versus the death drive in music- 58:00Associated with Bonaparte and Dionysus in Hölderlin.
Series · 3 Dec 2020Musicosophy 1. Schubert and the master singers- 45:42Associated with Lenin in the Nazi formula of Judeo-Bolshevism.
Season 9.1 · 19 Nov 2020#5 Benefits and harms of amnesia...- 1:33:10"Blessed are the poor in spirit," used to console people for their poverty.
Season 9.1 · 6 Nov 2020#3 Benefits and harms of amnesia...- 9:59The only proper name to have been the subject of more publications than Wagner.
Talks · 6 Oct 2020Calves and Things (3): The dictatorship of the bobotariat- 23:29"You are the salt of the earth": a saying judged utterly anti-ecological.
Season 8 · 17 Jul 2020#14 • Return to the logics of the subject- 1:17:42"The first communist," violent only to drive the merchants from the temple.
Season 8 · 9 Jul 2020#13 • Return to the logics of the subject- 25:23The crucified figure writhing in suffering, the third stage of the history of art.
Season 7 · 17 May 2020#8 • Harnessed to confinitude- 12:00He attacks the Pharisees: "you have the devil as your father."
- 1:14:14He washes his apostles' feet on Holy Thursday; only the sin against the spirit is unforgivable.
Season 7 · 5 May 2020#7 • Harnessed to confinitude- 52:43For the Nazis, the Jew who brought Christianity and weakened the elite races.
Season 7 · 26 Apr 2020#6 • Harnessed to confinitude- 1:49:47"My kingdom is not of this world": a truth beyond.
Season 7 · 18 Apr 2020#5 • Harnessed to confinitude- 32:11"Blessed are the poor in spirit," "let the little children come to me": valorization of simplicity.
- 38:19Bread and wine refer to the Last Supper, but perhaps also to Dionysus.
Season 6 · 29 Mar 2020#6.6 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 23:44'My kingdom is not of this world.'
Season 6 · 8 Jan 2020#6.3 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 1:21:50The Gospel says "the son of man," never the son of God.
Season 5.2 · 26 May 2019#5.7 Nature or Landscape?- 1:39:25Subject of Bach's Passions.
Season 5.2 · 25 Jan 2019#5.4 Introduction / Nature or Landscape?- 1:00:05The "fool" who says to turn the other cheek, a figure comparable to Perceval.
Talks · 31 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 2- 53:30Comparison with passages that announce Christ.
Season 4 · 15 Mar 2018#4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:37:55'Today you will be with me in paradise,' an example of interpretation imposed on Beethoven.
- 1:51:16'My kingdom is not of this world.'
Season 4 · 12 Nov 2017#4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:02:07The last of the gods in Hölderlin, who brings the great Greek daylight to an end.
- 1:20:38"You are the salt of the earth," says the Gospel.
Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:23:04The son on the cross, another moment of God.
- 1:41:53The torch-bearer, the Syrian, in Hölderlin.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.6 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 57:34"Let the little children come to me": Christianity breaks the Greek confidence in rationality.
Season 2 · 10 Mar 2016#2.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:50The dereliction on the Mount of Olives: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani."
Season 2 · 18 Feb 2016#2.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 21:50After his death, the apostles gathered together await the comforter.
Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 7:46One of the three hunters in Hölderlin's poem.
- 1:05:01Gospel saying about the rich man and the camel passing through the eye of a needle.
Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 59:53Calls himself the son of man, who must be lifted up like the serpent of Moses in the desert.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 2/5- 1:06:50Jewish, like Marx.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2- 34:58"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church": to name is to master.
Series · 4 Jan 2015U for Übermensch- 9:32The figure of the crucified Christ, of suffering humanity, is embodied for Nietzsche in the mistreated horse.
Series · 23 Dec 2014I for Island- 6:09Asked about spirit, he answers with the wind, of which one knows neither whence it comes nor whither it goes.