Season 11 · 7 Aug 2023NIGER SPECIAL: Should we "blacken the corpses"?- 56:16Political executioner of the Commune, he acknowledges that one cannot govern indefinitely by bayonets and that elections must be won.
Thiers
Appears in 6 videos · 6 passages, 2 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani mentions Adolphe Thiers briefly but repeatedly, from 2014 to 2023, always in connection with the Paris Commune. He calls him the "executioner of the Commune"1, the man who restored order after it2. What he mainly takes from him is the political lesson Thiers draws from the Bloody Week: one must learn to win elections rather than repress3. In 2023 he returns to this idea, saying that Thiers acknowledges one cannot govern indefinitely by bayonets4. As early as 2014, in a session devoted to Rousseau, he urges reading him to understand what came next in political history5. The same point recurs in varied contexts: the presentation of the future workshops in 2020, a session on War and Peace and Freud, a special broadcast on Niger. Each time, Thiers serves as a reference point for this shift from armed repression to winning elections.
- 110#6 Guerre et Paix : "Les pulsions de mort progressent en silence..." (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 19:43
- 2#15 • Retour aux logiques du sujet23 Jul 2020 · 32:54
- 3#2 - Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude30 Mar 2020 · 39:51
- 4SPÉCIAL NIGER : Faut-il "noircir les cadavres" ?7 Aug 2023 · 56:16
- 5#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 40:23
Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( tee-AIR; French:; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republic. Thiers was a key figure in the July Revolution of 1830, which overthrew King Charles X in favor of the more liberal King Louis Philippe, and the Revolution of 1848, which overthrew the July Monarchy and established the Second French Republic. […]
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Season 11 · 7 Aug 2023NIGER SPECIAL: Should we "blacken the corpses"?
Series · 20 Sept 2014#2 Rousseau, a world that begins- 40:23He understands that one must win elections rather than repress; he must be read to understand what follows.
Season 10 · 8 Dec 202110#6 War and Peace: "The death drives advance in silence..." (Freud)- 19:43The executioner of the Commune.
Season 8 · 23 Jul 2020#15 • Return to the logics of the subject- 32:54Restored after the Commune.
Season 7 · 30 Mar 2020#2 - Harnessed to Confinitude- 39:51Executioner of the Commune, he concludes after the Bloody Week that one must learn to win elections.
Series · 23 Mar 2020Interview with Dominique Pagani: Introduction to the upcoming workshops- 1:10:14After the Commune, he realizes one must learn to win elections.