Richelieu

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly refers to Richelieu as the man who establishes absolute monarchy, against the great nobles of the kingdom1. The point he recalls most often, from 2015 to 2023, is the ban on duels. Through this measure, he says, Richelieu "castrates" the nobility of the sword, that is, the warrior nobility, and he sees it as the beginning of absolute monarchy23. He returns to this point in varied contexts: a session devoted to Leibniz4, a reflection on whether a real science of history is possible5, and another on the geopolitical metaphor. In a 2014 session on the thought of Michel Clouscard, the name serves to situate a period before absolute monarchy6. Elsewhere, in a session on modal and tonal music, he mentions Richelieu's policy of dividing Germany and connects it with German resentment and the massacre of Magdeburg7.

1. 19 #17 La métaphore géopolitique • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani17 Mar 2021 · 1:02:06
2. 2#1.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 15:30
3. 3Dominique Pagani : De la débauche du sens à l'orgie du sentiment29 May 2023 · 39:47
4. 4Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 32:05
5. 59 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 1:00:36
6. 6#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014 · 16:28
7. 7Musicosophie 11. Musiques modales et tonales24 Jan 2021 · 1:51:02

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.