What Dominique Pagani says Dominique Pagani reads Nietzsche with affection and calls him "the great simpleton". He distinguishes the author from "neo-Nietzsche-mania": since the 1970s and the Cold War, the postmoderns have made him a master thinker, in the service of the counter-revolution1 2 . For him, Nietzsche is a philologist and a poet rather than a philosopher, as the refrain "only a fool, only a poet" says3 . His decisive opposition is between the healthy and the unhealthy, not between the true and the false4 . In Beyond Good and Evil, he picks out the question of the value of truth, in which he sees the birth certificate of absolute non-knowledge. He finds the Nietzschean vulgate already in Callicles and recalls the reactionary Nietzsche: hostile to the Commune, he makes pity an anti-value. Yet his collapse in Turin before a mistreated horse confesses that pity5 . He follows his relationship with Wagner at length: the praise of Siegfried, the rejection of Parsifal, then his being overwhelmed by its prelude6 . He also approves his critique of poets who "muddy their waters", which he links to Hegel and Marx.
1 Hegel Plage 2/5 1 Feb 2016 · 52:51 2 L’éternel retour… des camps de la mort ? 13 Oct 2024 · 22:22 3 10#6 Guerre et Paix : "Les pulsions de mort progressent en silence..." (Freud) 8 Dec 2021 · 1:30:23 4 La maladie, le malheur, le mal 20 Sept 2024 · 33:52 5 #5 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude 18 Apr 2020 · 1:35:45 6 #15 Nietzsche : Pertinence philosophique ou musicale ? Réponses aux questions 23 Jun 2022 · 1:16:32 Summary produced automatically from 150 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this? Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. […]
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Season 10 · 23 Dec 2021 10#7 "Post-modern" eco-petty-Nazism - Plato's Gorgias18:56 Central master-thinker of the post-moderns for more than two generations. 21:39 Thus Spoke Zarathustra The refrain "only a fool, only a poet" shows he did not consider himself a philosopher.22:38 His denunciation of afterworlds as incantation and magic takes up Callicles's terms. 26:29 Full of complexes, close to the Wagners, antisemitic in his youth before becoming philosemitic after the break. 48:24 His decisive pair of values is the normal and the pathological; he sees in egalitarianism the symptom of an illness. Series · 28 Jan 2021 Musicosophy 12. Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner23:51 Beyond Good and Evil § 255 opposes the south to the north and gives primacy to the healthy over the unhealthy; it is a sick man seeking healing.51:34 The Wanderer and His Shadow The wanderer replies that he seeks a mask, less unhealthy than the truth: this is a figure of escapism.1:17:32 According to Losurdo, he only becomes philosemitic after his break with Wagner; he was more antisemitic than his sister. 1:41:37 Beyond Good and Evil He opposes the pagan Siegfried to the Parsifal of old age, who preaches the road to Rome.2:05:13 Thus Spoke Zarathustra In the Song of the Tombs, he addresses Wagner, "murderous singer" who killed his dancer's ecstasy.Season 13 · 20 Sept 2024 Sickness, misfortune, evil23:53 Ecce Homo In his last book, he admits that his youth would not have been bearable without Wagnerian music; he struggles against himself.33:52 His decisive dichotomy is not the true and the false but health and illness; in this sense he is not a philosopher in the strict sense. 40:44 Ecce Homo Tristan is for him unequaled in all the arts for its dangerous fascination and its dreadful and sweet infinity.48:39 "Become what you are" is his weakest aphorism. 49:45 Ecce Homo "The world is poor for one who has never been sick enough"; Wagner is his greatest benefactor, united by suffering.Series · 27 Jul 2022 NIETZSCHE - NO PITY FOR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique9:11 A philologist rather than a philosopher, he shares with Wagner the question of the unity of the arts in Greek tragedy. 10:43 The Gay Science He speaks of a "star friendship," drawing on the science of the time about the distance between constellations.11:04 He accuses Wagner of having betrayed Greek Dionysian optimism for Christian and romantic pessimism; he is wary of everything unhealthy. 14:21 Beyond Good and Evil There he calls Parsifal churchy sanctimoniousness without having heard a note of it.15:08 Enemy of pity, he nonetheless recognizes in the prelude to Parsifal the secrets of Christianity that he did not want to admit to himself. Season 10 · 23 Jun 2022 #15 Nietzsche: Philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions51:35 Postmodern thought rehabilitates the sophists in his wake. 58:22 The essential opposition in him is the healthy and the unhealthy, not the true and the false; he is more a philologist than a philosopher. 1:09:16 Beyond Good and Evil He opposes Siegfried, in good health, to Parsifal, judged sickly and Roman, without having heard the music.1:16:32 He contradicts himself after hearing the prelude to Parsifal: an elevated and healthy soul, Christian answers. 1:30:24 Beyond Good and Evil He dreams of a "music sister of the palm tree," more than European, which anticipates the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, and he analyzes German depth.Series · 3 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 1. Schubert and the master singers34:30 Beyond Good and Evil In "Peoples and Fatherlands," he sees in Die Meistersinger three centuries of music; the Germans are of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.41:32 His treacherous pun on Adler and Geyer shows jokes exchanged between antisemites. 44:12 A reactionary who contradicts himself: the music of Parsifal makes him recognize the courage of Christianity, in which he sees socialism. 48:16 The slave's discourse targets socialism; his obsession is the rise of the working class. 55:18 Says pejoratively that Wagnerian recitative is "wet." Season 7 · 11 Apr 2020 #4 • Harnessed to confinitude7:17 A fashionable irrationalist thinker among adolescents, who identify with Zarathustra and Dionysus. 42:43 Beyond Good and Evil He raises the question of the value of the true and prefers the untrue: this is the birth certificate of absolute non-knowledge.49:53 He knows Kant poorly but has admirable philological competence in Greek and came close to the problem of the unconscious. 54:04 Beyond Good and Evil In paragraph 255, he opposes the South to German music and anticipates a music more than European, one that would ignore good and evil.1:11:44 The will to power has nothing determinate about it; Cosima Wagner and Lou Salomé are the two women who overwhelmed Nietzsche. Season 13 · 13 Oct 2024 The eternal return… of the death camps?22:22 He was used to de-Marxify the university during the Cold War. His thought of the eternal return opposes linear progress, and he assumes cruelty. 25:51 Thus Spoke Zarathustra He reads "On the Vision and the Riddle": the gateway called moment, placed between two eternities, and the dwarf who represents the spirit of gravity.1:10:20 He is estranged from Wagner. His remark about the Adler and the Geyer insinuates that Wagner is antisemitic because of his own origins. Series · 7 Feb 2023 Nietzsche, or the Great Ninny - Readings on the Spot0:32 Great fool passed off as a demystifier; a volunteer against the Commune, discharged as a stretcher-bearer, clumsy with women. 4:33 Beyond Good and Evil In §255, he senses a more than European music, freed from the North; his values are the healthy and the unhealthy.10:01 Beyond Good and Evil In §244, he denounces German depth as painful digestion and disguise; a text judged prophetic.Season 9.2 · 18 Feb 2021 9 #15 How can sciences of history be real?8:31 He holds Die Meistersinger and Tristan in special regard, setting them apart from his criticisms of Wagner, even in the asylum. 1:16:41 Already estranged from Wagner, he judges that the final duet of Siegfried surpasses the sphere of storms and the sublime. 1:28:07 His malicious pun on Wagner: he who cannot be an eagle (Adler) tries to be a vulture (Geier). 1:32:55 Beyond Good and Evil He has almost all the Nazi themes except antisemitism; first antisemitic like everyone else, he becomes philosemitic after falling out with Wagner.1:34:33 Thus Spoke Zarathustra In the "Song of the Grave," he evokes Wagner, the bribed singer with the mournful horn, then blesses him as the most innocent.Series · 11 Jan 2021 Musicosophy 8. Happiness and unhappiness in music10:00 The Birth of Tragedy Saw that Dionysus represents popular joy and the collective, as against Apollo, figure of aristocratic individuation.22:00 Flees the spirit of gravity of romanticism; his real values are the healthy and the unhealthy, but health is reserved to an elite. 29:05 Praises the Parnassians for having escaped the morbid traps of romanticism. 2:00:17 Beyond Good and Evil Reading of paragraph 244: German honesty is a dangerous disguise, a Mephistophelian talent; the text is judged premonitory and disturbing.Season 7 · 5 May 2020 #7 • Harnessed to confinitude53:03 He never forgives Wagner for moving from the pagan Siegfried to Parsifal, the hero of compassion. 59:24 Beyond Good and Evil He has Nazi themes but is not antisemitic; yet in a letter he accuses the "Jewish press", which his translators replace with "Socratic press".1:34:55 For him, Greece owes its greatness to slavery. 1:37:42 Beyond Good and Evil He praises Siegfried and accuses Parsifal of taking the road to Rome, without having heard a note of it.1:42:27 In 1887, he writes to his sister of his being overwhelmed by the prelude to Parsifal, akin to his own compositions. Season 7 · 18 Apr 2020 #5 • Harnessed to confinitude2:42 His thesis: truth may not be a value and the untrue may be superior to it; one must grant it originality and coherence. 14:54 He mocks philosophers, poor seducers if truth is a woman. 29:26 Nerval refutes him: once truth is known, one cannot act as if one did not know it. 1:09:20 He prefers amnesia, the opposite of the anamnesis demanded by the psychoanalyst. 1:35:45 His collapse in Turin before a mistreated horse betrays the pity he had wanted to extirpate. Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus53:43 The German drags his soul like a ball and chain. 1:37:45 Beyond Good and Evil He prosecutes romanticism, democracy and Christianity, and reproaches Parsifal for its road to Rome.1:44:19 In a letter to Peter Gast, he praises the prelude to Parsifal: formidable elevation and compassion. 1:46:55 His notebook recognizes in Parsifal the Christian answers, the strongest ones, and his Protestantism as a misunderstanding. Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus6:26 The romantics confuse the pleasure of waking with that of falling asleep. 57:34 Was tempted by antisemitism like the German petty bourgeoisie, but does it better than Soler. 1:25:51 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Makes the best-argued case against Christianity: "aut Christus, aut Zarathustra."1:32:19 Discovers the libretto of Parsifal, falls out with Wagner and becomes philosemitic out of hatred for him. 1:35:56 Ends in madness; hearing the prelude to Parsifal, he retracts and acknowledges the strength of Christianity. Talks · 19 Jun 2016 At the bistro with Pagani: part 211:53 Cited among those who sank, unlike Rousseau. 30:08 A romantic Christian, shaken by the music of Parsifal; the usage stemming from Heidegger diverts attention from a tragic, suffering Nietzsche. 33:31 Sees that Wagner is not so German, and does not find himself very German either. 35:32 Dreams of going to Corsica, to Corte where Napoleon was conceived, and feels the African sphere beginning between Nice and Corsica. Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016 #2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?13:18 A mocking philologist toward philosophers; Molière's "dormitive virtue" sums up philosophical tautology. 15:12 Thus Spoke Zarathustra He paid with his person (his collapse in Turin); the refrain "nothing but a madman, nothing but a poet": he did not want to be a master thinker.22:57 Photo with Lou Salomé: he knew the pleasure-avoidance principle, far from the thinker of ecstasy he is made out to be. 1:50:08 In a triangle of madness with Hölderlin and Nerval. Series · 4 Jan 2015 U for Übermensch1:30 The case of Nietzsche is examined under the letter U, with the Übermensch; Pagani says he reads him with affection and calls him 'the great nigo'. 5:54 Human, All Too Human His superman is not Göring's, but making pity an antivalue is terrifying. He wanted to fight the Commune and comes from the reactionary right.8:07 The superman is the imaginary dream of crossing a threshold where one transcends one's ties and 'scruples of moraline'. 8:36 Thus Spoke Zarathustra He despises man as we despise the ape, but his madness is triggered in Turin by the sight of a mistreated horse, a figure of suffering humanity.Season 10 · 10 Feb 2022 #9 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION: Art, seen from here or from the other side?1:35:31 The surface is often deeper than the depths; better in aesthetics than in politics. 2:37:15 Beyond Good and Evil Prefers masks to the face; his pair is not the true and the false.Season 10 · 8 Dec 2021 10#6 War and Peace: "The death drives advance in silence..." (Freud)1:03:20 Thus Spoke Zarathustra The neo-pagan new right claims him as its own; yet his "I am tired of poets" is closer to Marx than to it.1:30:23 Thus Spoke Zarathustra He is not a philosopher but a thinker and a poet, and classes himself as such in the refrain "nothing but a fool, nothing but a poet."Series · 3 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music43:34 Symptom according to Furtwängler: victim of resentment against the Galilean break, not a great stripper of illusions. 1:33:57 The spirit of gravity. 1:38:01 Has the merit of defending Mendelssohn's happiness, which places him to the left of Adorno. Season 9.1 · 8 Oct 2020 #1 Benefits and harms of amnesia...1:44 He takes up the defense of forgetting against an established tradition. 22:14 Thus Spoke Zarathustra "Song of Melancholy": "nothing but a fool, nothing but a poet," hesitation between poetry and philosophy.56:20 Untimely Meditations Forgetting is the condition of happiness; a declared counter-revolutionary, he nonetheless joins Rousseau in praising the instant.1:03:47 Untimely Meditations One cannot live without forgetting; excess of historical sense harms the living; his morality is a morality of health, beyond good and evil.1:14:25 Other texts from Zarathustra will be read later. Talks · 2 Jul 2018 Tribute to Domenico Losurdo53:11 A reactionary philosopher, he takes up the critique of universal man: most men are instruments of labor. 1:15:01 He too speaks of the domestic slavery of women, but to consider it normal. 1:27:12 Presented as the very example of the sublime hypochondriac. 1:29:53 Slavery is for him a reality, not a metaphor: he condemns the English abolition and calls Beecher-Stowe a sick woman. Talks · 18 Jun 2016 At the bistro with Pagani: part 138:48 Replaces Hegel and Marx as unemployment rises. 58:20 Beyond Good and Evil Page on the overture of the Meistersinger: the Germans are of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow, never of today.59:39 The Birth of Tragedy One of the three madmen of modernity; his first work pays tribute to Wagner, who wants to fuse word and music.1:06:35 His phrase 'sursum boum boum' on Wagner; he died of his love for Wagner. Season 1 · 14 Sept 2015 #1.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?21:56 Thus Spoke Zarathustra A philologist more than a philosopher, he calls himself "nothing but a fool, nothing but a poet"; he has been made into a master thinker since the end of the Cold War.54:35 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Weary of poets who trouble their waters to make them seem deep: close to Hegel and to Plato.Talks · 23 May 2026 NEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI1:32:05 Thus Spoke Zarathustra "They trouble their waters so that they may seem deep" defines confusionism.Season 14 · 13 Apr 2026 Language and thought: The case of Lavoisier2:21 Cited in disputes between philosophers. 39:21 Formula: it is always a new sun that rises in the morning, but always the same one that sets in the evening. Season 14 · 4 Feb 2026 The return of fascism12:47 Thus Spoke Zarathustra He quotes him positively: poets trouble their waters so that they appear deep, an image of confusionism.Season 14 · 21 Oct 2025 The silences of the media uproar - new cycle: the Atlanticist re-Nazification.17:49 One of the three non-philosophical authors who matter after Hegel. 47:03 He said catastrophic things about pity as a slave feeling; for him inferiority is a matter of spirit, not biology. Season 12 · 4 Jun 2024 The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present12:06 Perceptive about music, he called the second act of Parsifal a witch's cauldron. 1:52:03 A contemporary of Wagner, along with Rilke and Dostoevsky, who came close to Freudian discourse. Season 12 · 21 Apr 2024 Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning?11:00 Beyond Good and Evil He judges Wagner grown senile with Parsifal, an anti-Siegfried, after having placed Siegfried at the zenith.13:53 Gracq reproaches him for having thrown the work as fodder to Christians. 50:46 He spoke pertinently of "moraline." 1:04:47 A friend of the Wagners, Cosima gave him Montaigne's Essays; he wanted to equal the French moralists. Season 12 · 1 Apr 2024 The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?1:03:02 Beyond Good and Evil He prefers Siegfried, too free and anti-Catholic, and reproaches Wagner's Parsifal for having taken the road to Rome, with its incense and its faked ecstasies.1:36:52 A reader of Schopenhauer and of Buddhism, like Wagner. Season 12 · 12 Dec 2023 "I is another", or contradictory identity1:01:05 Thus Spoke Zarathustra The three metamorphoses, camel, lion, child, describe an affirmation that has passed through negation.1:40:35 His megalomania at the hospital, far from the Nietzsche of Onfray or Deleuze. Season 11 · 14 Jan 2023 Beware of misreadings!! Clouscard and the ideology of desire, in homage to Le Précepteur30:04 Clouscard cites him positively when he says of Pascal "he runs in my blood"; the anti-Christian who opposes Christ to Zarathustra. Season 11 · 12 Dec 2022 Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval11:22 Furious that Wagner moves from Siegfried, beyond good and evil, to an idiot who turns the other cheek. 24:40 His bust appears in the Grail castle in Syberberg's film. 1:09:31 Reading the libretto: "too much blood" and no taste for hysterical women. 2:09:29 Admired the Valkyrie's awakening, a solar scene; he called Wotan the god of bad weather. Talks · 19 Mar 2022 Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poetry and politics44:01 His Greek nostalgia is not that of Hölderlin. 49:42 The Birth of Tragedy He places Apollonian appearance above the Dionysian, popular ground, which Hölderlin never does.1:24:02 The Birth of Tragedy He reports the pessimistic saying that it would be better not to be born.Season 9.2 · 3 Apr 2021 9 #18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation28:29 He admitted defeat before The Mastersingers. 47:28 He saw in Brünnhilde's awakening a sublation of the sphere of storms and the sublime. 52:30 He mocks Wotan, "god of bad weather"; in a letter to Peter Gast he wants to go to Corte where Napoleon is said to have been conceived. Season 9.2 · 5 Feb 2021 9 #14 How can sciences of history be real?11:48 A professor in Basel, he spent his weekends at the Wagners'; he was nearsighted and suffered from migraines. 28:27 He called "moraline" the morality of ought-to-be and admired Pascal. 1:34:41 He called Kant "the great Chinaman of Königsberg." Series · 2 Feb 2021 Musicosophy 13. Mozart restored3:37 Beyond Good and Evil Shares with Goethe a wariness of the Germans: Goethe will never belong to them.Season 9.2 · 29 Jan 2021 9 #13 How can sciences of history be real?2:58 Dominique Pagani shares one point with him: the Wagnerians are detestable. As for the Nietzscheans of the Cold War, Nietzsche would have vomited them. Talks · 16 Jan 2021 The World Before, The World After - Part 144:21 Beyond Good and Evil The complete opposite of Hegel and Marx, but the best German writer: German depth is often merely a painful digestion, and good nature hides a Mephistophelian talent.Season 9.1 · 24 Dec 2020 #10 Benefits and harms of amnesia...31:32 Thus Spoke Zarathustra He proposes cutting the anamnesic effort short, as one bites off the serpent's head: a dose of forgetting is healthy.56:01 Oedipus seems to prove him right. Season 9.1 · 3 Dec 2020 #7 Answers to questions (continued)44:53 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Man is a rope stretched over an abyss: he is becoming and passage, in agreement with Hegel and Marx.Talks · 4 Oct 2020 Calves and Things, preface by Dominique Pagani9:59 From Nice, he writes that between Nice and Corsica the African sphere begins, and that one should go to Corte, where Napoleon was conceived. Season 7 · 4 Apr 2020 #3 • Harnessed to confinitude5:23 Beyond Good and Evil He saw that a European music existed before the national schools.41:42 "I seek a music that is sister to the palm tree" announces jazz and exoticism; he seeks to exorcise his Wagnerian temptation. 1:23:16 Even hostile to Wagner, he admired the awakening of the Valkyrie. Season 6 · 29 Mar 2020 #6.6 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism10:46 A listener asks him for an essay on the Nietzsche-Wagner relationship. 1:27:52 He mocks Wagner as trained in Paris and suggests, through the Adler/Geyer wordplay, that he is the son of his adoptive father. Season 6 · 30 Jan 2020 #6.4 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism11:36 Petit bourgeois terrified of the working class; to posit the superman is to posit sub-men. 14:25 According to Tertulian, he is more Nazi than his sister. 32:16 Called Kant the great Chinaman of Königsberg. Season 6 · 8 Jan 2020 #6.3 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism27:51 Associated with the fashion for the aphorism. 1:17:37 Critique of the afterworlds; he prefers the tired Nietzsche of the poets who muddy their own waters. 1:43:01 Great subtle ego but politically blind, reactionary German bourgeois. 1:50:16 Thus Spoke Zarathustra The ape, an object of shame and mockery for man.Talks · 6 Dec 2019 The brass band's journey - by Dominique Memmi1:38:07 He wants to go to Corte, where Napoleon is said to have been conceived, and senses that "between Nice and Corsica the African sphere begins." Series · 2 May 2019 Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault8:00 Twilight of the Idols Foucault's idol, who nonetheless said that without music life would be an error.38:34 He mocks philosophers trapped by the will to power inscribed in language. 1:00:28 The death of God is Foucault's transparent reference; the charge of resentment turns back against postmodern thought. Season 5.2 · 26 Mar 2019 #5.5 Nature or Landscape?1:08:07 A critique of otherworlds. 1:30:16 Beyond Good and Evil The traveler asks only for another mask: what matters is remaining veiled.Season 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018 #5.2 bis FaceBookLive / Questions (1)1:12:55 Beyond Good and Evil Asks why truth should be a value; Hegel had already posited another value than the true.Season 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018 #5.2 ter FaceBookLive / Questions (2) following Workshop #5.221:34 Callicles holds the same argument as he does. 25:49 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Zarathustra comes back down toward others: the sun would have no glory without those it illuminates.Season 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018 #5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions20:49 Reduced by dominant thought to the critique of Judeo-Christianity as a slave morality. 22:54 "I despise Locke": example of German contempt for English empiricism. 49:17 Criticizes Wagner by saying that Wotan is the god of bad weather. 57:50 Cited among those whose reason wavered. Season 5.1 · 24 Oct 2018 #5.1 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought38:10 He did not withstand the pressure of his contradictions and collapsed in Turin. 1:28:09 He is right to speak of "moraline"; he said of Pascal that he flows in his blood. Season 5.1 · 15 Oct 2018 #5.0 Presentation of the 2018-19 Workshop Season18:43 Thus Spoke Zarathustra The ape is an object of shame and derision for man, as man will be for the superman; Pagani distinguishes him from the neo-Nietzscheans and contradicts him.Talks · 6 Oct 2018 Dominique Pagani "On Marx"4:00 He would read the Gospel sentence as an afterworld; neo-Nietzscheanism of masters and slaves suits capital. 36:08 For him, the democratic is an incantation of the weak against the superior. Season 4 · 14 Jun 2018 #4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)20:07 Wotan, god of bad weather: a jab at Wagner. 38:53 He is right to criticize afterworlds, if Christianity is reduced to sacrifice. 1:31:26 Thus Spoke Zarathustra The midnight song: joy, deeper than pain, wants eternity; poem carved on a rock near Silvaplana.1:33:30 His Greece is that of an aristocracy of free men and a mass of slaves. Season 4 · 12 Nov 2017 #4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)50:13 "Either Christ or Zarathustra": his fury against Christianity inspires the neo-Nietzscheans. 55:24 Beyond Good and Evil Parsifal causes his break with Wagner; he accepts Siegfried but not the idiot who turns the other cheek; a jab at Brahms.Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?12:00 Mad, he wrote to Cosima Wagner "Ariadne, I love you," signed Dionysos. 17:43 He sees himself as the faithful Dionysos facing Wagner, a runaway and forgetful Theseus. Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus11:03 Reference on the dithyramb of Dionysus at the origin of tragedy. 1:46:32 Beyond Good and Evil Asks why the untrue should not be worth more than the true if truth is unbearable.Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?7:28 Not responsible for the "crapulous" use made of him during the Cold War. 56:03 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Anti-Christian but Christian to the bone: it is not sin that scandalizes heaven, it is satisfaction.Talks · 9 Mar 2017 Is History a subject?1:26:50 Adversary of Christianity, he sees in it, as in democracy and communism, a morality of slaves jealous of exceptional beings. Season 2 · 18 Feb 2016 #2.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?8:54 Thus Spoke Zarathustra "Poets muddy their waters so that they may seem deep," a Nietzsche close to Hegel.1:03:18 "Wotan is the god of bad weather," to mock Wagner. 1:09:44 The romantics confuse the pleasure of falling asleep with the start of waking. 1:25:43 Prophet of the great noon, whom he pities with tenderness. Series · 1 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 2/524:14 Privileged reference of contemporary thought on unlimited desire. 52:51 "Brilliant fool," a great writer; distinguish Nietzsche from neo-Nietzschean mania; opposed to the Hegelian state according to Baeumler. Series · 1 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 1/558:11 The fashion for the aphorism against the Hegelian system; he was no idler. 2:17:17 His return in the 1970s accompanies the contemporary counter-revolution. 2:26:03 Beyond Good and Evil Adversary of pity, he collapses in Turin while embracing a horse; yet he admires Wagner's Parsifal and fears the Commune.Season 1 · 28 Jan 2016 #1.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?47:42 He said of Pascal: "he runs in my blood." 1:08:21 His notion of "moraline." 1:11:53 Beyond Good and Evil He asks what in us wants the truth, and envisages an unbearable truth.Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015 #1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?41:51 He criticizes the eternal return of the post-1968 sub-Nietzscheans, which amounts to accepting the return of suffering. Talks · 26 Apr 2015 The Music of History38:56 called Kant "the great Chinaman of Königsberg" 1:47:23 wanted to be anti-Christian while being the most Christian of his generation Series · 8 Jan 2015 Y for Yonville9:17 The episode of the mistreated horse illustrates the displacement. 9:40 Thus Spoke Zarathustra He rehabilitates illusion, but an anti-aesthetic Nietzsche reproaches poets for muddying their waters so that they seem deep, and praises clarity.Series · 26 Dec 2014 L for Liberty6:37 Thus Spoke Zarathustra A "poor fellow" whom he admires, honest about himself when he calls himself "nothing but a fool, nothing but a poet"; a great poet.Series · 24 Dec 2014 J for Jeunesse (Youth)5:47 The Birth of Tragedy A heroic posture: he attempts to make the untrue a value superior to the true; the faun's secret expresses his fundamental tragic pessimism.Series · 21 Dec 2014 G for Gauche (the Left)3:04 Thus Spoke Zarathustra The opening of the book: Zarathustra, alone on the mountain with the true, comes back down toward men.Series · 20 Sept 2014 #2 Rousseau, a world that begins41:55 Master thinker of the postmoderns, volunteer to go crush the Paris Commune. Season 13 · 25 Jul 2025 Naturalist ideology / Answers to questions - Dominique Pagani1:13:59 A fraudulent use, like that of Kant. Season 13 · 15 May 2025 Imaginary identity25:43 After the break, he says he never found the equivalent of this music by Wagner. 1:02:13 His phrase "my name is nuance," which he endorses 150 percent. Season 13 · 6 Feb 2025 On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens18:15 Wrote odious texts on what pity supposedly has of the feminine and the decadent. Season 13 · 2 Dec 2024 Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self5:49 Better than the neo-pagan sub-Nietzscheanism that reads him through Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida and Heidegger. 8:36 The first to oppose Christianity to the Greek world. 40:45 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Refrain "for I love thee, O eternity."Season 13 · 2 Sept 2024 Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle10:15 His correspondence with Peter Gast, in which he recounts his first hearing of Parsifal. Season 12 · 14 Aug 2024 TOO LATE?48:48 Cited alongside Goethe among the Germans who distrust Germany. Season 12 · 24 Jun 2024 For a "fresh and joyful" apocalypse?9:55 Had the merit of rehabilitating Mendelssohn, whom he calls the Halcyon master. Season 12 · 30 May 2024 From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject8:50 Pity is, for him, the most anti-Nietzschean value; his reason died of pity. 15:43 Already estranged from Wagner, he misses their meeting in Sorrento. Talks · 23 Mar 2024 SAHELIAN AFRICA AND IMPERIALISM: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - with Dominique PAGANI1:31:18 Better than the Nietzscheans; he has affection for him. Season 12 · 17 Oct 2023 Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?19:40 More tea than beer, like him. 1:11:15 A philosopher prized by Atlanticist ideology, great ego but a great writer of the German language. 1:14:39 He glorifies a Greek city where freedom concerned only a minority. Season 11 · 3 Sept 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom??2:16:29 Not a lazy man, unlike the Cold War Nietzscheans. Talks · 29 May 2023 Dominique Pagani: From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment2:34:43 The spirit of gravity. Season 11 · 18 May 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all1:13:15 We owe him the expression "afterworlds". 1:18:12 "A Christian to the marrow", he cures himself against himself by putting Christianity on trial. Talks · 27 Mar 2023 Interview with Dominique Pagani, praxis and psyche53:40 Something other than the Cold War Nietzscheans; "moraline." Season 11 · 3 Mar 2023 War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism1:43 His texts analyzed in the live readings may have wrongly given the impression that Pagani is anti-German. Season 11 · 17 Feb 2023 Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war13:33 Subject of a recent series of readings. Season 11 · 23 Nov 2022 THE APORIAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY53:40 Disgusted by the text of Parsifal, overwhelmed by its music. Season 11 · 13 Nov 2022 Dialectics of hesitation and decision1:04:12 He reproaches Wagner for having abandoned the paganism of Siegfried for the idiot who turns the other cheek. Season 11 · 14 Oct 2022 Clouscard and the problem of Socrates1:09:35 Grumbles more against Wagnerians than against Wagner. Talks · 14 Jul 2022 From Plato to world revolution, by Dominique Pagani22:30 Says on page 11 the opposite of page 10; turned into a guru since the counter-revolution of the 1960s. Series · 20 May 2022 Dominique Pagani - Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics39:29 The romantics confused the pleasure of falling asleep with that of waking up. 1:03:18 Overbeck urges him to go and hear The Rhinegold. Season 10 · 24 Mar 2022 #11 UKRAINE: Mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)1:20:13 Linked to the irrationalist current, opposed to progressivism and rationalism. Season 10 · 27 Jan 2022 #8 Philosophising under threat44:51 Callicles's themes are described as pre-Nietzschean. Season 10 · 24 Nov 2021 10#5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last...2:12:19 Thus Spoke Zarathustra "It is not your sin that scandalizes heaven, it is your satisfaction."Series · 17 Nov 2021 Left-washing: Are the woke the most asleep?8:57 A shared reference of these thinkers. Season 10 · 6 Oct 2021 10#2 Dialectics of identity and difference14:14 Right to denounce "moraline." 1:10:29 Saw that Dionysus is the god of the collective, Apollo that of individuation. Season 9.2 · 28 Apr 2021 9 #20 From SIGNAL to SIGN • Einstein51:00 He liked to walk in the Upper Engadine. Series · 7 Apr 2021 #1 Mignon, or the song of silence43:08 Like Goethe, he reproaches the Romantics for being soft. Series · 31 Mar 2021 "Red-browns", "decolonial": Should we use the dominant language? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani9:06 He is better than the Nietzscheans of the Cold War. Series · 25 Mar 2021 Musicosophy 18. What is musical in music20:18 Goethe is so free that he will never belong to the Germans. 27:25 Wagner's Beethoven condenses the worst and the best of Wagner. 1:18:34 "Become what you are," an antidialectical formula in which being remains primary. Season 9.2 · 17 Mar 2021 9 #17 The geopolitical metaphor • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani35:34 Also alludes to the dormitive virtue. Series · 10 Mar 2021 Musicosophy 16. Programme music / Pure music1:16:11 Thus Spoke Zarathustra 'I would only believe in a god who knew how to dance.'Season 9.2 · 4 Mar 2021 9 #16 How can sciences of history be real?39:24 Mentioned in continental philosophy. Series · 9 Feb 2021 Musicosophy 15. Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music6:30 Cited among philosophers attached to music. Series · 7 Feb 2021 Musicosophy 14. Mozart once more11:46 Volunteer against the Communards, rejected for his myopia. 1:06:25 His text contrasts the joyful hero Siegfried with Parsifal. Series · 24 Jan 2021 Musicosophy 11. Modal and tonal music1:50:20 Judged that Wagner's Beethoven mixes the best and the worst. Series · 18 Jan 2021 Musicosophy 10. The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner58:04 Sees in Mozart the swan song of a European music; "we good Europeans." Season 9.2 · 14 Jan 2021 9 #12 How can sciences of history be real?1:23:51 No music is more apt than Wagner's to turn into obsession. Series · 17 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 7. The Greeks, myth and music13:14 Opposed to the pedagogical honesty of transmission. 48:10 Among those who created German Greece. 58:17 Being accomplished through violence is not anthropological. Series · 15 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 6. The Jazz Variation... by Beethoven1:55:31 Saw that Wagner sums up centuries of music. Series · 11 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 5. Happiness versus the death drive in music6:37 Invited to Wagner's house during a blessed period he never recovered. 9:45 Beyond Good and Evil King of clichés about peoples and homelands.1:06:51 His brother-in-law founds an Aryan colony in South America with his sister. Series · 3 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 3. What is called modern music?22:57 Ironically opposes secco recitative to the Wagnerians' "wet recitative." Season 9.1 · 30 Nov 2020 #6 Answers to questions8:57 The will to power likewise precedes knowledge, but it tells us little: power over what? Season 9.1 · 19 Nov 2020 #5 Benefits and harms of amnesia...1:03:10 The word "moraline." Season 9.1 · 6 Nov 2020 #3 Benefits and harms of amnesia...16:02 Though severe with Wagner, he judges the scene between Siegfried and Brünnhilde sublime. Talks · 5 Oct 2020 Calves and Things (2): Ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?16:57 Idol of the neonaturalists, neo-vitalist. 38:08 One cannot be both a Marxist and a Nietzschean. Talks · 24 Sept 2020 Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought56:35 Opposed to the "sub-Nietzsche" of the postmoderns; letter to Peter Gast on Parsifal. Season 8 · 9 Jul 2020 #13 • Return to the logics of the subject51:59 In agreement with Hegel in criticizing the other-world. Season 8 · 2 Jul 2020 #12 • Return to the logics of the subject25:55 He used to call Kant "the great Chinaman of Königsberg." Season 8 · 30 May 2020 #9 • Return to the logics of the subject33:12 Close to Pascal; disdains what he calls moralism. Season 7 · 17 May 2020 #8 • Harnessed to confinitude1:38:10 Hegel pre-emptively slaps post-Nietzschean aestheticism. Series · 23 Mar 2020 Interview with Dominique Pagani: Introduction to the upcoming workshops0:51 The "spirit of gravity" invoked to characterize the advocates of the duty of happiness. 1:05:17 The "afterworld" opposed to the world here and now. Season 6 · 19 Feb 2020 #6.5 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism16:06 Subtle, to be distinguished from sub-Nietzscheans and from the fraudulent use of his thought during the Cold War. Season 6 · 3 Dec 2019 #6.2 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism57:13 Criticizes the Kantian notion of faculty by comparing it to Molière. Season 6 · 23 Oct 2019 #6.1 • The Logic of the Subject • season 6 / 2019-208:00 Musically fantastic, he calls Mendelssohn the halcyon master. 37:56 Would have dreamed of being La Bruyère; his ideal was the French moralists. Series · 10 Sept 2019 D. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat • Part Two1:06:05 The term ressentiment. Season 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019 #5.8 Nature or Landscape?1:15:30 He believed he had left romanticism behind and was a Greek. 1:45:48 The comic in Hegel is pre-Nietzschean. Season 5.2 · 26 May 2019 #5.7 Nature or Landscape?1:33:19 From Marx to Nietzsche; he feels affection for him. Season 5.2 · 4 Feb 2019 #5.4 Nature or Landscape?6:44 His lover's hatred for Wagner, his falling-out with the Wagnerians and Bayreuth. 11:43 A Hellenomaniac, he says Goethe does not belong to the Germans. Season 5.2 · 25 Jan 2019 #5.4 Introduction / Nature or Landscape?7:37 The German drags his soul like a ball and chain. Season 5.1 · 21 Nov 2018 #5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought18:00 Worth more than the little Nazi wannabes who claim him. 22:17 Said that Goethe is above the Germans. Talks · 20 Jul 2018 Education: can the Beautiful be learned?52:50 Thus Spoke Zarathustra It is not your sin that scandalizes heaven, it is your self-satisfaction.Series · 5 Jul 2018 Being and Code42:49 He is right to see in Christianity a religion of slaves, but wrongly so in a pejorative sense. Talks · 12 Jun 2018 In conversation: Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1 June 201848:39 Placed, after Hegel, outside of philosophy. Season 4 · 16 May 2018 #4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)55:58 Deserves respect and pity; distinguished from the pseudo-Nietzscheans. 1:05:49 His Greece is not that of Hölderlin. Season 4 · 15 Mar 2018 #4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)20:15 Prefers Nice to Wagner's places of bad weather. 37:13 One of the three emblematic follies obsessed with the relation between Greece and Christianity. Season 4 · 12 Feb 2018 #4.5 Angélique (by Nerval)1:37:30 Callicles is called pre-Nietzschean. Season 4 · 11 Dec 2017 #4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)12:30 Shares with Hegel an esteem for the Persian religion. 1:13:22 Wrongly believed to have been the first to criticize afterworlds. 1:35:01 A sub-Nietzscheanism turns Christianity into a religion of guilt. Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?2:11 Cited with Schopenhauer. 43:47 The fashion for fragments; he targets the little Nietzscheans of the Cold War, not Nietzsche. Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?45:50 Announces the death of God. 1:15:08 Thus Spoke Zarathustra It is not your sin but your satisfaction that scandalizes heaven.Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus1:15:35 Resentment in the Nietzschean sense against progress and modernity. 1:21:21 Anti-Christian though he is, he says of Pascal: "he runs in my blood." Talks · 1 Aug 2017 Should we save Private Lordon? Dominique Pagani read by G.Protche13:40 "Thanks, uncle Nietzsche": inspirer of the hunt for Christian-Marxism. 19:33 In one generation we have passed from Marx to Nietzsche. Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus16:03 Speaks of Greece in the manner of the Apollo Belvedere. 1:47:40 Cited within contemporary irrationalism. Talks · 2 Aug 2016 Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3)3:18 a "Heideggerized" Nietzsche inspires weak thought Series · 2 Aug 2016 With Clouscard6:51 Replaces Marx in the age of liberal-libertarianism. 13:58 The new capitalism is enjoying, transgressive, neo-Nietzschean. Season 2 · 10 Mar 2016 #2.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?7:21 Hölderlin understood before him that a modern cannot redo the Greeks. Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016 #2.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?3:40 A quotation suggested by an online participant; he asks for a whole page rather than a single sentence. 1:44:22 The "afterworlds" that helped one glide over anxieties. Series · 2 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 3/511:50 Cited among the thinkers of aesthetic intuition. Series · 2 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 4/52:17:03 Callicles' thesis is already pre-Nietzschean. Series · 29 Jan 2016 What is to be done? 1/333:53 The Nietzschean vulgate is already present in Callicles's discourse. Series · 29 Jan 2016 What is to be done? 2/351:01 A figure of the irrationalist counter-revolution. Season 1 · 11 Dec 2015 #1.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?47:32 Called Kant the great Chinaman of Königsberg. Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015 #1.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?20:41 Says of Pascal that he "rolls in his own blood". Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015 #1.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?54:41 Said of Goethe that he would always be above the Germans. Series · 8 Dec 2015 Dominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 1/28:47 Behind the good feelings of each self, he sees a will to power. Season 1 · 14 Sept 2015 #1.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?23:30 He is wrongly credited with themes that come from Callicles. 25:32 "All of Nietzsche parades" in Callicles' tirade. Series · 3 Jan 2015 T for Triangle7:49 Example of an irrationalist doctrine on the moral and human world, put back to back with positivism. Series · 29 Dec 2014 O for Opposition15:30 Mentioned regarding the Germans who invented the Greeks. Series · 26 Sept 2014 #4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard.1:25 Dreamed of writing like a French moralist without ever achieving it. Series · 23 Sept 2014 #3 The myth of the noble savage in Rousseau!14:14 Dreamed of going to Corsica, to Corte, where he believed the superman Napoleon had been conceived. Series · 7 Jul 2012 Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 20:00 The will to power: an abstraction. Series · 6 Jul 2012 Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 140:39 The will to power, like power in Foucault, explains nothing. Series · 29 Jan 2012 Everything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 25:58 led astray by Onfray's left-wing Nietzscheanism 
Season 10 · 23 Dec 202110#7 "Post-modern" eco-petty-Nazism - Plato's Gorgias
