Liliane Bettencourt

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani does not discuss Liliane Bettencourt for her own sake. From 2014 to 2021, he uses her as an example in his criticisms of a discourse about "women in general." He presents her as a woman who dominates other men and other women1. He cites her among powerful women to challenge the idea of a uniform male domination2. In his view, the condition of women also depends on social class: it is better to be Liliane Bettencourt than a woman of another class, and the relation between men and women is not enough to account for domination3. He also cites her against what he calls bourgeois feminism4. In a session on whether sciences of history can be real, she again serves him as an example against a notion of "women" that ignores social positions5. In all these passages, the example supports the same argument: analysis should go through class relations rather than through a category of women seen as a homogeneous group.

1. 1#5 Libéralisme-libertaire, consommation libidinale et musique...27 Sept 2014 · 9:07
2. 2L'île du Peuple : le débat23 Jun 2015 · 58:03
3. 3Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 34:59
4. 4Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 1:13:03
5. 59 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 53:14

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.