Joseph de Maistre

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani presents Joseph de Maistre as the chief counter-revolutionary of the nineteenth century, whom he places in the wake of the English counter-revolution1. What he mainly retains from him is the saying that he has met Frenchmen, but never man in general2. At first he sees in it the same sensibility as Burke's against abstract man3. Later he specifies that it is de Maistre, and not Burke, who makes this statement4. He reads in it a nominalist dissolution of the universal that leads to silence5. He often returns to his influence on Baudelaire, who calls him "the impeccable one" and makes him his intellectual mentor. For him, de Maistre is the source of the reactionary Baudelaire, the one for whom nothing is good but the poet, the priest and the soldier6. He also links to de Maistre the idea that "man is not made for time"7. Finally, he cites him among the sources of Soler's themes.

1. 1#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 16:25
2. 29 #22 Science et/ou philosophie de l' "intelligence artificielle" - 2ème partie27 May 2021 · 38:44
3. 3Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 34:47
4. 410#6 Guerre et Paix : "Les pulsions de mort progressent en silence..." (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 1:06:56
5. 5Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 49:47
6. 6#10 • Retour aux logiques du sujet11 Jun 2020 · 1:24:00
7. 7Clouscard et le problème de Socrate14 Oct 2022 · 1:15:38

Summary produced automatically from 13 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.