Schopenhauer

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Schopenhauer above all as a figure of the irrationalist counter-revolution. He often recalls that in 1848 the philosopher denounced the rioters to the police, and that his vogue among the bourgeoisie dates from after 1848, as a weapon against Marxism12. He sees in him a philosophical proto-history of Nazism3. He also points out contradictions: Schopenhauer scorns the body and, as a Buddhist, believes in immortality, yet he flees the cholera in Berlin4. Pagani nonetheless judges him original: he asserts the will against intellectualism, reinserts man into nature and takes anticolonialist positions5. From The World as Will and Representation, he retains that the will can only be grasped indirectly, as representation. On music, he finds his discourse one of the most interesting, while faulting him for confusing the non-sensible with the irrational6. He places him in relation to Hegel, whom he hates for petty reasons, to Nietzsche, who owes him the will to power, and to Wagner, in whom he prevails over Dionysus.

1. 1Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 1:39:58
2. 2Mann (Thomas)23 Oct 2019 · 1:01:23
3. 3Robert (Marthe)8 Jan 2020 · 1:47:52
4. 4SPÉCIAL NIGER : Faut-il "noircir les cadavres" ?7 Aug 2023 · 40:53
5. 5Ce soir, on repolitise. 2ème partie31 Mar 2018 · 28:24
6. 6Musicosophie 15. Platon, Rouseau, Hegel et la musique9 Feb 2021 · 1:19:46

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