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Season 14Atlanticist renazification
  1. Why, in the media uproar, is the history linking Atlanticist capitalism to Nazism and to the present danger of war passed over in silence?The silences of the media uproar - new cycle: the Atlanticist re-Nazification. · 21 Oct 2025
  2. What is rightly called fascism, and how can we recognize its return today?The return of fascism · 4 Feb 2026
  3. What is meant by fascism today, and why is war its worst expression?Their "Europe" means war. · 28 Feb 2026
  4. What distinguishes philosophy from other fields of knowledge, and why is its relation to language essential to it?Language and thought: The case of Lavoisier · 13 Apr 2026
  5. What distinguishes Plato from Aristotle, the two poles between which the history of philosophy has oscillated for 2500 years?The foundations of the Platonic and Aristotelian distinction · 5 May 2026
  6. How did discourse on nature become scientific, and why must we break with empiricism to understand it?From Copernicus to Lenin: Revolution! · 28 Aug 2026
Season 13Evil
  1. How does Clouscard's thought, read from Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes and its relation to Rousseau, account for the present situation?Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle · 2 Sept 2024
  2. How is evil, under the figures of misfortune, illness and suffering, linked to autumn and finitude, and how can it be overcome?Sickness, misfortune, evil · 20 Sept 2024
  3. If everything is determined and returns eternally, is philosophy, which asks the question "what must I do?", still possible, and can one still deliver a message against evil?The eternal return… of the death camps? · 13 Oct 2024
  4. Why can the essence of evil be defined as lying, that is, as a privation of self-knowledge?Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self · 2 Dec 2024
  5. What is evil, if one starts from Rousseau's distinction between the state of nature and the civil state?The essence of evil - Innocence of nature, horror of naturalism! · 17 Dec 2024
  6. Why were the Khmer Rouge, communists, hostile to the Soviets, and what does their genocide reveal about the essence of evil?On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens · 6 Feb 2025
  7. Is identity a substance, or must it be converted into relation and function?Imaginary identity · 15 May 2025
  8. What do perfumes, even the foul-smelling ones, teach us about sublimation, about modernity, and about man caught between the indeterminate and the determinate?Flagrante Delights · 27 May 2025
  9. What does money reveal about desire and self-knowledge, and why speak of a dialectic of matter rather than a dialectic of nature?Naturalist ideology / Answers to questions - Dominique Pagani · 25 Jul 2025
  10. What do money, neopositivism, and bourgeois civil society have in common in the repression of the subject and self-knowledge?The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society · 9 Aug 2025
  11. Why must the State, understood as general will, be distinguished from the State apparatus that oppresses?STATE AND STATE APPARATUS - The conflict between public and private · 29 Aug 2025
Season 12The elusive identity
  1. What does the opposition between left and right mean today, and what does the term "Islamo-leftism" conceal?Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism? · 17 Oct 2023
  2. How can we think the contradiction within the subject, the negativity immanent to the self, and why do we repress it?"I is another", or contradictory identity · 12 Dec 2023
  3. What is dialectic, if it hinges on the internal contradiction of a subject between opposed and mutually necessary moments?Birth and carnage - The Massacre of the Innocents · 22 Dec 2023
  4. How can the notions of identity, indeterminacy and negativity, which lie at the heart of internal determination, be made concrete?I am not who you think I am - The elusive identity · 4 Jan 2024
  5. In what sense can secularism be called the "truth" of religion, that is, what accomplishes it by abolishing it?Secularism, the truth of religion? · 18 Feb 2024
  6. What does the critique of the distinction according to Bourdieu by Henri Lefebvre, and more broadly the work of Clouscard, teach us about how to think differences, relativism and determinism?Clouscard by you - Answers to your questions · 28 Feb 2024
  7. The quest for the Grail, as Wagner takes it up again in Parsifal, is it a Christian piety or a sacrilegious work?The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege? · 1 Apr 2024
  8. What does the final formula of Parsifal, "Redemption to the redeemer," mean: does redemption close the cycle or set it going again?Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning? · 21 Apr 2024
  9. What does Michel Clouscard denounce in Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir: desire and consumption, or the discourse claiming that the working class wallowed in the "consumer society"?Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire - Clouscard, as relevant as ever (cf. Macron's ultra-warmongering remarks) · 2 May 2024
  10. What does the separation of the Grail and the spear mean in the second act of Parsifal, and how can their reunion be understood as the passage from substance to subject?From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject · 30 May 2024
  11. Why does the fixation on the mother, which the second act of Parsifal stages, make the past be lived as a present, and how does this illusion concern modernity?The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present · 4 Jun 2024
  12. What is this far right whose rise surprises everyone, and what political divide must be set against it in the face of the danger of war?For a "fresh and joyful" apocalypse? · 24 Jun 2024
  13. The day after the legislative elections, what fascism are we talking about, and how can it be identified through a concrete analysis of our era?After the vote - Entering a zone of turbulence · 11 Jul 2024
  14. Is it already too late to prevent the war waged by Atlanticist imperialism from becoming a world conflict?TOO LATE? · 14 Aug 2024
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard
  1. How can philosophy, which hesitates between the rigor of mathematics and the language of poetry, take the subject into account?And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire · 28 Sept 2022
  2. How, starting from ordinary ideological language, do we arrive at the necessity of the concept?Clouscard and the problem of Socrates · 14 Oct 2022
  3. In what sense is speech "the best and the worst of things," and how does this contradiction reappear in Hegel's Greater Logic and in the relation between philosophy and history?"Speech is the best and the worst of things" (Aesop) · 19 Oct 2022
  4. Why is hesitation, as opposed to decision, at the very origin of philosophy, and how does it touch on the problem of language?Dialectics of hesitation and decision · 13 Nov 2022
  5. Can we fix a threshold where one ceases to be animal and becomes man, or must man be thought as the very movement of this passage?THE APORIAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY · 23 Nov 2022
  6. How do Perceval, Parsifal and Siegfried figure hesitation, fascinated by sight or by hearing, and the passage to decision?Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval · 12 Dec 2022
  7. Does Clouscard put desire itself on trial, or the ideology of desire?Beware of misreadings!! Clouscard and the ideology of desire, in homage to Le Précepteur · 14 Jan 2023
  8. Between roots and migration, between the measure of the inhabited place and the pull of the infinite, how does man find his place, while war looms?Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war · 17 Feb 2023
  9. What should be understood by liberal-libertarianism, and how does the confusion between the State and the State apparatus prepare the return of fascism and war?War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism · 3 Mar 2023
  10. Does poetic speech proceed from the immediate intuition of genius or from a rigor that proceeds by mediations?A SPRINGTIME OF THE PEOPLES? · 18 Mar 2023
  11. What does the world mean, and worldliness in Clouscard's sense, between the happiness of being in the world and the lie of the world that keeps the dominated under the ideology of the dominant?Worldliness in Clouscard, or "The dominant ideology" · 26 Apr 2023
  12. Why does mondanité, in Clouscard, not reduce to "bling-bling", and what does the world become when the privileges of a few are extended to all?Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all · 18 May 2023
  13. How does the positivity of the negative, read in a poem by Aragon and in the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, shed light on Clouscard's concept of worldliness and the critique of neopositivism?Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative · 29 Jun 2023
  14. How can we think the ambivalence of the world, between enjoyment and negativity, when two worlds collide, as in the colonial encounter between Africa and the school of the white men?Worldliness in Clouscard - The clash of worlds? · 9 Jul 2023
  15. How can reason, which has essence but not existence, produce a world, and why must it resort to cunning for this?Worldliness in Clouscard - The world as "cunning of reason" · 22 Jul 2023
  16. What does the coup in Niger reveal about the situation in the Sahel and about the way Western powers wage their wars while managing public opinion?NIGER SPECIAL: Should we "blacken the corpses"? · 7 Aug 2023
  17. What is the object of human desire in our modernity, and who is its subject?Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom?? · 3 Sept 2023
Season 10Femininity and Community
  1. What is the program of the philosophy workshops for the 2021-2022 season?Presentation of the 2021/2022 workshops - Association membership · 20 Sept 2021
  2. What does Hegel's formula "this femininity, eternal irony of the community" mean, and why is the tension between family and city it designates still relevant today?10#1 The eternal irony of the community · 22 Sept 2021
  3. What relation, and what hierarchy, does Hegel establish between aesthetics and politics, based on the opposition between the family and the city embodied by Antigone?10#2 Dialectics of identity and difference · 6 Oct 2021
  4. Why does aesthetics remain tied to a political stake in Hegel, and why does the tragedy of Antigone still hold for the modern world?10#4 From Lascaux to modern music, the permanence of the political stakes in aesthetics · 3 Nov 2021
  5. Why does Hegel make Antigone's tragedy the "supreme ethical opposition," to the point of granting it a value that escapes its own era?10#5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last... · 24 Nov 2021
  6. Why is the danger of war, from the Sahel to the Russian-Ukrainian border, wrapped in silence, and what does this silence reveal, in the sense that "the death drives progress in silence"?10#6 War and Peace: "The death drives advance in silence..." (Freud) · 8 Dec 2021
  7. Why does "post-modern" thought, which claims descent from Nietzsche, deify nature and despise equality merely repeat the thesis of Callicles in Plato's Gorgias?10#7 "Post-modern" eco-petty-Nazism - Plato's Gorgias · 23 Dec 2021
  8. What does the geopolitical situation in eastern Europe and the Sahel reveal about the crisis of capitalism and the danger of war?#8 Philosophising under threat · 27 Jan 2022
  9. How does art pass, in Hegel's aesthetics, from the presence of the sacred to representation, and what relation does this movement of interiorization bear to the political?#9 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION: Art, seen from here or from the other side? · 10 Feb 2022
  10. What does the notion of edge, border and march teach us about the war that breaks out in Ukraine?#10 UKRAINE: From the problem of "Edges" to the unleashing of war · 24 Feb 2022
  11. How should one respond to those who accuse Dominique Pagani of anti-Americanism and complacency toward Putin, and what does the media unanimism on the war in Ukraine reveal?#11 UKRAINE: Mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle) · 24 Mar 2022
  12. How can we think the dialectic between the security of the hinterland and the peril of the edge, and what does it mean to stand on a "perpetuated edge"?#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge · 7 Apr 2022
  13. What remains invariant, beneath their apparent discontinuity, in Dominique Pagani's talks?#14 Caves of Yesterday and Today - From Plato to modernity · 10 Jun 2022
  14. What place does music occupy between the mathematician, the poet and the philosopher, and what good use can be made of Nietzsche, the philosopher who spoke most of music?#15 Nietzsche: Philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions · 23 Jun 2022
  15. What does Clouscard's quip "there are no vacations in the concept" mean, and how does philosophy make problematic habitual concepts such as "climate disruption" or "the West"?#16 Michel Clouscard: "There are no holidays in the concept!" - Dominique Pagani · 7 Jul 2022
Season 9.2How Can Sciences of History Be Real?
  1. How can sciences of history, that is, sciences of the human subject, attain a rigor really comparable to that of the sciences of nature?9 #11 How can sciences of history be real? · 7 Jan 2021
  2. How can understanding, the faculty of the sciences and of the "if… then," axiologically neutral, be put to the service of evil, and how does Wagner's Das Rheingold show this?9 #12 How can sciences of history be real? · 14 Jan 2021
  3. How can sciences of history have a rigor with nothing to envy in the hard sciences, and what does Wagner's Das Rheingold show on this subject?9 #13 How can sciences of history be real? · 29 Jan 2021
  4. How can sciences of history be real, if the determinism of the natural sciences seems to exclude freedom?9 #14 How can sciences of history be real? · 5 Feb 2021
  5. How does a mythic narrative such as Wagner's Ring, taken at its midpoint, reveal a rigorous logic, an "algebra" of gold and love, that the sciences of history and culture can bring out?9 #15 How can sciences of history be real? · 18 Feb 2021
  6. How can sciences of history be real, and how has the relation of the sciences to philosophy evolved since Aristotle's philosophical imperialism?9 #16 How can sciences of history be real? · 4 Mar 2021
  7. Under what conditions is a discourse scientific, and how does science turn into scientism when applied to the human world?9 #17 The geopolitical metaphor • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani · 17 Mar 2021
  8. How does Wagner's Twilight of the Gods move from the circular time of fate, in which everything repeats, to the freedom of the world of men?9 #18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation · 3 Apr 2021
  9. How does the last act of Twilight of the Gods move from the cyclical repetition of myth to a woman's knowledge and the reign of man?9 #19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation • Part 2 · 14 Apr 2021
  10. How can one cross the abyss between the natural sciences and the historical sciences, and how is it that statements drawn from language alone apply to the world?9 #20 From SIGNAL to SIGN • Einstein · 28 Apr 2021
  11. What should be understood by "artificial intelligence," and what separates a machine that simulates intelligence from a being who speaks, doubts, and sets itself ends?9 #21 Science and/or philosophy of "Artificial Intelligence" · 12 May 2021
  12. What distinguishes man from an "intelligent" machine, and how do debates on artificial intelligence take up problems already posed by Descartes?9 #22 Science and/or philosophy of "artificial intelligence" - Part 2 · 27 May 2021
  13. How can it be shown that the historical sciences have an object as rigorously determinable as that of the natural sciences?9 #23 "Ruled like music paper!" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss · 9 Jun 2021
  14. What grounds the determinability that the symbolic order brings out in Nerval's texts, and how does Nerval get out of the repetition of his fantasy?9 #24 "Ruled like music paper!" • Nerval • Baudelaire • Part 2 · 30 Jun 2021
Season 9.1The Benefits and Harms of Amnesia and Anamnesis
  1. Is memory the condition of happiness and identity, or is forgetting its condition instead?#1 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 8 Oct 2020
  2. Why can memory, which Greek myth conflates with language in the figure of Mnemosyne, not go without forgetting?#2 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 23 Oct 2020
  3. How do anamnesis and amnesia, individual and collective, work upon memory, and what does it mean for memory to be overdetermined?#3 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 6 Nov 2020
  4. How does memory, which retains and names, confront the indeterminacy of origins, and how can one memory overdetermine others?#4 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 13 Nov 2020
  5. Why is human memory inseparable from forgetting, and how does the consciousness of death mean that 'the echo changes'?#5 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 19 Nov 2020
  6. How does the site dominiquepagani.fr organize access to the workshops, publications, texts, and musical resources?#6 Presentation of the dominiquepagani.fr website · 26 Nov 2020
  7. Is desire only a way of not thinking about death, and freedom a mere pretext for avoiding it?#6 Answers to questions · 30 Nov 2020
  8. How should one answer public questions on Nazism and esotericism, contemporary music, ontology in Marx, orbital resonance and a variant of Capital, and how to announce next semester's program?#7 Answers to questions (continued) · 3 Dec 2020
  9. Why does the nostalgia for a lost substance found every reactionary ideology, and what does the ambivalence of memory and language reveal?#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 10 Dec 2020
  10. Can we show that a logic is at work in human affairs, and what role do memory, forgetting, and anamnesis play in Phèdre's tragic confession?#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 17 Dec 2020
  11. Should anamnesis be pushed as far as our oldest vulnerability, or should it be forgotten in order to open onto a genuine future?#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia... · 24 Dec 2020
Season 8Back to the Logics of the Subject
  1. Does a privation of truth exist, a lie to oneself, that is not culpable, provided it is accompanied by social justice?#9 • Return to the logics of the subject · 30 May 2020
  2. What relationship does the aesthetic field have with the political field, between the poet as bard of the collective and the poet of art for art's sake?#10 • Return to the logics of the subject · 11 Jun 2020
  3. How does Hegel's aesthetics, centered on the figure of Antigone and on classical art, allow us to think tragedy, finitude, and the avant-gardes of modernity?#11 • Return to the logics of the subject · 21 Jun 2020
  4. Why has aesthetics become a necessary part of the corpus of philosophy?#12 • Return to the logics of the subject · 2 Jul 2020
  5. What does Kant's reflective judgment teach us about the relation between the beautiful object and the subject's desire, and how far can art lead?#13 • Return to the logics of the subject · 9 Jul 2020
  6. How does the Norwegian collective Alt går bra articulate aesthetics and politics, from Diogenes' cynical cosmopolitanism to the recognition of popular art?#14 • Return to the logics of the subject · 17 Jul 2020
  7. What does the confinement of the era reveal, and what form of solidarity, camaraderie or community, allows us to face it?#15 • Return to the logics of the subject · 23 Jul 2020
  8. What becomes of art once aesthetic religion has disappeared, and what do we, moderns, gain from this loss?#16 • Return to the logics of the subject · 30 Jul 2020
Season 7Harnessed to Confinitude
  1. What form will the live sessions offered during the confinement take, and in what spirit?#0 - Harnessed to Confinitude · 26 Mar 2020
  2. What is common between the will to stop time in Baudelaire, Debussy and Lévi-Strauss, and the repetition of crises of capital that the events of March 2020 reveal?#1 - Harnessed to Confinitude · 27 Mar 2020
  3. Why does modern man's access to absolute knowledge come with a refusal to know, and how does this conflict between revolution and counter-revolution structure modernity?#2 - Harnessed to Confinitude · 30 Mar 2020
  4. How does romanticism, the first expression of modernity, express the unhappiness of absolute knowledge, and how can one escape it through a collective subject?#3 • Harnessed to confinitude · 4 Apr 2020
  5. When is romanticism, the first expression of modernity, progressive, and when does it become reactionary in the face of access to absolute knowledge?#4 • Harnessed to confinitude · 11 Apr 2020
  6. If access to truth is irreversible, why does modern consciousness seek to flee it?#5 • Harnessed to confinitude · 18 Apr 2020
  7. What does the polarity of white and red in the poetic imagination, from Chrétien de Troyes to Mallarmé and Nerval, say about our modernity?#6 • Harnessed to confinitude · 26 Apr 2020
  8. What does the ongoing crisis reveal, read through Marx's dialectic and through the ideology of Heidegger, Jünger and Nietzsche documented by Domenico Losurdo?#7 • Harnessed to confinitude · 5 May 2020
  9. What is lying, and how is lying to oneself related to ideology, repression, and negativity?#8 • Harnessed to confinitude · 17 May 2020
Season 6The Logic of the Subject and the Reconstruction of Nazism
  1. What is a logic proper to the subject, which exists only for, by and in a subject, and how does it differ from the logic of objects?#6.1 • The Logic of the Subject • season 6 / 2019-20 · 23 Oct 2019
  2. How do the death drive and the compulsion to repeat, as read in Freud and Lacan, shed light on the logic of the subject and on the reconstitution of Nazism?#6.1-1/2 - Prelude • D.Pagani / Lacan: Function and field of speech and language · 10 Nov 2019
  3. In what way does a logic of the subject allow us to think and combat the current reconstitution of Nazism, whose common ground is naturalism?#6.2 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism · 3 Dec 2019
  4. How does the relationship between substance and subject, which converge in Antiquity and diverge in modern times, shed light on the reactionary attempt, up to Nazism, to restore "the compact solidity of being"?#6.3 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism · 8 Jan 2020
  5. How does the logic of the subject, grounded in recognition, allow us to identify the reconstitution of Nazism in contemporary management and neoliberalism?#6.4 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism · 30 Jan 2020
  6. How does the modern stage of the relation between substance and subject, where absolute knowledge becomes possible, shed light both on the logic of the subject and on the reconstitution of Nazism?#6.5 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism · 19 Feb 2020
  7. Why does the access to absolute knowledge in modernity symmetrically engender the temptation of an absolute non-knowledge, which leads as far as Nazism?#6.6 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism · 29 Mar 2020
Season 5.2Nature or Landscape?
  1. Are nature and landscape interchangeable terms?#5.4 Introduction / Nature or Landscape? · 25 Jan 2019
  2. Are nature and landscape the same thing, or is landscape merely a surface onto which the subject projects its fantasies?#5.4 Nature or Landscape? · 4 Feb 2019
  3. How does landscape reach its highest poetic value when the visible setting fades to become an interior landscape?#5.5 Nature or Landscape? · 26 Mar 2019
  4. How is the exterior, the landscape, interiorized by speech and music, and how does landscape differ from nature?#5.6 Nature or Landscape? · 2 May 2019
  5. How do revolutionary thought and the question "nature or landscape" fit together, and what distinguishes nature from landscape?#5.7 Nature or Landscape? · 26 May 2019
  6. What distinguishes nature from landscape, and how does the beauty of landscape relate to freedom and property?#5.8 Nature or Landscape? · 30 Jun 2019
  7. Is philosophical communication possible, if the message, as in Kafka's "An Imperial Message," seems never to reach its destination?#5.9 Kafka: An Imperial Message · 29 Jul 2019
Season 5.1Revolutionary Thought, from Rousseau to Lenin
  1. How can we think revolutionary thought from Rousseau to Lenin without separating the study of praxis from the consideration of the psyche?#5.0 Presentation of the 2018-19 Workshop Season · 15 Oct 2018
  2. How does Rousseau open a sequence of revolutionary thought that leads to Lenin, and what dialectical thread runs through it?#5.1 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought · 24 Oct 2018
  3. What place does transmission hold in the pedagogical movement from the Renaissance to Rousseau, and what are the stakes of the dissolution of the separation of genres?#5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions · 2 Nov 2018
  4. Why does Hegel, the philosopher of mediation, occupy a central place in revolutionary thought from Rousseau to Lenin, and what relation does mediation have with death?#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought · 21 Nov 2018
  5. What place belongs to the concept of end (telos) in the novel of formation and in the Hegelian-Marxist conception of history, and how do negativity and death relate to freedom?#5.2 bis FaceBookLive / Questions (1) · 6 Dec 2018
  6. What relation does the philosopher have with politics, and how do finality, negativity, mediation and death implicate one another in man?#5.2 ter FaceBookLive / Questions (2) following Workshop #5.2 · 6 Dec 2018
  7. How can we think both the order of nature and the order of freedom at once, and what makes negativity the principle of revolutionary thought?#5.3 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought · 31 Dec 2018
  8. What distinguishes the philosophical question "what do you call...?" from the scientific question "what is it?", and how does the sign-meaning pair separate from the cause-effect pair?#5.3 bis FaceBookLive / Questions · 13 Jan 2019
Season 4The Philosopher’s Odyssey: Nerval’s Angélique
  1. Why read Nerval's Angélique, and how does this disjointed narrative, written in the middle of the century, lead from the mother's tomb to Rousseau's tomb?#4.1 Angélique (by Nerval) · 18 Oct 2017
  2. Is Angélique a disjointed text, or does it obey, beneath its digressions, a logic that is that of the dream?#4.2 Angélique (by Nerval) · 12 Nov 2017
  3. How can a literary text, that of a madman, achieve such rigor that it grounds a rationality in the human order, where Kant had separated nature and freedom by an unbridgeable abyss?#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval) · 11 Dec 2017
  4. What does the comparison of Angélique and Aurélia reveal about the evaporation of the real into surface, about the notion of edge in Nerval, and about the possibility of a determinism of human affairs?#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval) · 15 Jan 2018
  5. Does Nerval's itinerary in Angélique owe anything to chance, and what is meant by chance?#4.5 Angélique (by Nerval) · 12 Feb 2018
  6. Why does Angélique's journey, seemingly disjointed, converge on Rousseau's tomb at Ermenonville, and what does Nerval leave the reader once he has led him there?#4.6 Angélique (by Nerval) · 15 Mar 2018
  7. What does the ending of Nerval's Angélique reveal, where the walk that moves away from Rousseau's tomb closes into a loop, and is this necessity of the text merely personal or universal?#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval) · 12 Apr 2018
  8. In what sense is Nerval's quest for the mother, far from being a personal matter, connected to the universal, and what does modernity repress in its relation to art?#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval) · 16 May 2018
  9. How is a rigorous, quasi-scientific reading of a literary text possible if an abyss separates the exact sciences from the field of human actions?#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval) · 14 Jun 2018
  10. Why devote the 2017-2018 workshop to a continuous reading of Nerval's Angélique in order to continue the path "from Ulysses to Daedalus, from repetition to liberation"?#4.0 Dominique Pagani, Presentation of the 2017-2018 workshop: Nerval's "Angélique" · 24 Sept 2017
  11. Why go through Nerval and the concept of modernity to think the historical present, dominated by capital?#4.4B Objections to Dominique Pagani · 4 Feb 2018
Season 3The Philosopher’s Odyssey: from Ulysses to Daedalus
  1. Can man free himself from the fatality of the return of carnage, figured by Ulysses, through the labor that transforms reality, figured by Daedalus?#3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus · 1 Aug 2017
  2. How does modernity, since the French Revolution, repeat the alternation of classicism and romanticism, and is this repetition a return to the same or a spiral?#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus · 1 Aug 2017
  3. How can we assume the contradiction between the Greek and Christian heritages without falling back into the old counter-revolutionary thought that presents itself as new?#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus · 1 Aug 2017
  4. What relation does philosophy hold, in its principle, with politics?#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus · 1 Aug 2017
  5. Why does Plato's allegory of the cave already contain the whole program of philosophy, from knowledge to the return to politics?#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus · 1 Aug 2017
  6. How does one pass from the theoretical order (what can I know?) to the practical order (what must I do?), and why is Rousseau, "Newton of morality," the decisive figure for this?#3.6 From Ulysses to Daedalus · 1 Aug 2017
Season 2Between Crisis and War: Philosophising?
  1. Is it philosophical critique that provokes the crisis of the city, or is it because the city is in crisis that philosophizing is needed more than ever?#2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 15 Feb 2016
  2. How does a sonnet by Baudelaire, La Cloche fêlée, allow us to link the problem of language and communication to the thought of our historical present, modernity?#2.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 15 Feb 2016
  3. Why does philosophy, daughter of crisis, start from words of ordinary language, and what does modern poetry say about the historical moment named by the word "Occident"?#2.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 18 Feb 2016
  4. What is missing from the Cartesian subject in order to think the modern subject, and why do both the abstract self and the exclusive community end in destruction?#2.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 10 Mar 2016
  5. How does the modern subject divide itself, and how does literature express the unconscious before Freud theorizes it?#2.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 1 Aug 2017
  6. How does the reading of Phèdre, which joins the highest poetic beauty to the most profound content, lead from the psychological unconscious to class unconscious, and is there a universal criterion of beauty?#2.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 1 Aug 2017
  7. What path did the workshop "Between Crisis and War: Philosophizing?" follow, from the definition of philosophy to the passage to the philosophy of action?#2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 1 Aug 2017
  8. How can philosophy, after having answered with the sciences the question "what can I know?", move on to the knowledge of man and his historical present?#2.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 1 Aug 2017
Season 1Between Crisis and War: Philosophising?
  1. Why does philosophy always arise from crisis, and what distinguishes it from other forms of thought?#1.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 14 Sept 2015
  2. What can I know, and why does empiricism, which puts us in contact with reality, fail to reach truth?#1.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 14 Sept 2015
  3. Why did modern thought banish the notion of end, and how can it be rehabilitated without returning to naive finalism?#1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 10 Dec 2015
  4. How can science work, that is, how can the sequence of phenomena follow that of concepts, and what does Kant change by making the subject of knowledge an active subject?#1.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 10 Dec 2015
  5. What does Kant change by making the subject the legislator of knowledge, and why does this emancipation of the subject lead to the question of freedom?#1.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 10 Dec 2015
  6. Why does the philosophy of knowledge lead to the question "what must I do?", and what content should be given to freedom?#1.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 11 Dec 2015
  7. What becomes of philosophy when, in place of the good, modernity posits freedom as foundation, with the negativity and possibilities of evil that this opens up?#1.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising? · 28 Jan 2016
Introduction to the workshopsSeries
  1. What does Angélique de Nerval, reread in light of the Odyssey and the structure of the double carnage, teach us about the passage from Enlightenment happiness to the mal du siècle and about today's illusions?Interview with Dominique Pagani: Introduction to the upcoming workshops · 23 Mar 2020
MusicosophieSeries
  1. Why begin a history of music with its middle, with Schubert and the second act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger?Musicosophy 1. Schubert and the master singers · 3 Dec 2020
  2. Is the divorce between scholarly music and popular music that Lévi-Strauss notes in contemporary music a new symptom, and how can one think the union of speech and music up to the music of the future?Musicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music · 3 Dec 2020
  3. What do we call modern music?Musicosophy 3. What is called modern music? · 3 Dec 2020
  4. How does the "people" music born in the 1950s enclose young people worldwide in sound ghettos, and how can one escape it?Musicosophy 4. Sound ghettos · 3 Dec 2020
  5. How does modern music, since Beethoven, oscillate between the popular demand for happiness and the romantic fascination with the death drive?Musicosophy 5. Happiness versus the death drive in music · 11 Dec 2020
  6. What distinguishes genre from form in music, and why is the so-called "jazz variation" of Beethoven's opus 111 not jazz?Musicosophy 6. The Jazz Variation... by Beethoven · 15 Dec 2020
  7. Why do Greek art, myth, and music, tied to a past that is gone, still give us aesthetic pleasure?Musicosophy 7. The Greeks, myth and music · 17 Dec 2020
  8. Why does the history of music make happy and morbid musics alternate, and what is the happiness that they express?Musicosophy 8. Happiness and unhappiness in music · 11 Jan 2021
  9. How can a literary text convey what is heard in music, and what do Walt's dream in Jean-Paul and Vinteuil's little phrase in Proust reveal?Musicosophy 9. Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata · 15 Jan 2021
  10. Why was the best German music, that of Wagner in particular, best conducted and expressed by Jews whom Germany drove out?Musicosophy 10. The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner · 18 Jan 2021
  11. Why did tonal music, a recent exception on a musically modal planet, appear and develop so quickly in what is called the West?Musicosophy 11. Modal and tonal music · 24 Jan 2021
  12. What does the conflict between Nietzsche and Wagner reveal, once we reread Nietzsche's texts while listening to the music?Musicosophy 12. Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner · 28 Jan 2021
  13. What does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?Musicosophy 13. Mozart restored · 2 Feb 2021
  14. Why does Mozart's music, situated in the shift from the Ancien Régime to the new world, express that happiness which is, according to Saint-Just, a new idea in Europe?Musicosophy 14. Mozart once more · 7 Feb 2021
  15. What founds, since Plato, the complicity between music and philosophy?Musicosophy 15. Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music · 9 Feb 2021
  16. Does the distinction between pure music and program music hold, and what does it reveal about modernity?Musicosophy 16. Programme music / Pure music · 10 Mar 2021
  17. What does it mean to interpret a musical work, between improvisation, execution and the restitution of the composer's thought?Musicosophy 17. Interpretation · 25 Mar 2021
  18. What is musical in music?Musicosophy 18. What is musical in music · 25 Mar 2021
Pagani Parle MusiqueSeries
  1. What can we expect from speaking about music, and why deprive young people of music they are being denied?Pagani Parle Musique • Introduction to the podcast · 23 May 2022
  2. How does Mozart's music unite libertinism and generosity, comedy and true emotion, gaiety and melancholy?POLYMORPHOUSLY PERVERSE MOZART • Pagani Parle Musique · 1 Jun 2022
  3. How should one listen to a baritone saxophone solo against a big band, using the landmarks of jazz history and the range of the instruments?FREE GOLD FOR EVERYONE - MULLIGAN • Pagani Parle Musique · 8 Jun 2022
  4. What is a concerto, and what does the slow movement of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 reveal about Russian music?TCHAIKOVSKY - FROM THE STEPPES TO THE MIDWEST • Pagani Parle Musique · 15 Jun 2022
  5. Do the common divisions between tonal and modal music, learned and popular, classical and jazz hold up to scrutiny?FROM BACH TO THE PYGMIES • Pagani Parle Musique · 22 Jun 2022
  6. Does John Lewis's music belong to classical or to jazz, and is jazz not the true classical music of the twentieth century?JOHN LEWIS - CLASSICAL OR JAZZ? • Pagani Parle Musique · 29 Jun 2022
  7. How does the scherzo of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio unite popular and learned music?TIPSY BEETHOVEN! • Pagani Parle Musique · 6 Jul 2022
  8. By what paths does contemporary classical music become avant-garde, and how does Bartók renew it through popular music?BARTÓK - THE UNHEARD-OF SOUND • Pagani Parle Musique · 13 Jul 2022
  9. What does music say when it says nothing, and how does instrumental music express what words dare not say?WAGNER - THE TRUTH OF PURE MUSIC • Pagani Parle Musique · 20 Jul 2022
  10. Why does Nietzsche, after condemning Parsifal as a Christian betrayal of the Greek ideal, recognize in its music the truth he had refused?NIETZSCHE - NO PITY FOR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique · 27 Jul 2022
  11. How does music enter into time only to leave it, bringing back the past to the point of touching a kind of eternity?SCHUBERT - THE DIVINE CAPTIVES • Pagani Parle Musique · 3 Aug 2022
Questions and answersSeries
  1. How should one answer public questions on interpretations of Wagner's Ring, on how to enter Clouscard's work, on political philosophy, and on what Marx brings to the reading of Phèdre?Wagner and his interpreters, Approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani · 31 Mar 2021
  2. Should we take up the notions of "red-brown" and "decolonial" produced by dominant ideology, and what is lost when the subject is eliminated in the human sciences?"Red-browns", "decolonial": Should we use the dominant language? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani · 31 Mar 2021
  3. Is there a balance in nature that man has come to disturb, or does this idea project the ideology of the market onto nature?A balance in nature? • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani · 31 Mar 2021
  4. Is the autonomy claimed today by those who go off to live in nature a freedom or a way of freeing oneself from humanity?My eco-cabin in the ZAD: autonomy or alienation? • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani · 30 Apr 2021
  5. What is the relation between the consciousness of consciousness and the victory of bourgeois materialist cynicism, and what does the category of the milieu reveal?Cynicism of the extreme centre or epistemic heroism? The dialectic of the middle • Dominique Pagani · 20 May 2021
  6. Why is Heidegger "the most Nazi of the great philosophers," and what does Dominique Pagani reproach him for above all?Heidegger, or Panzer Philosophy • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani · 21 May 2021
  7. How does Hegel, in his first philosophy of spirit, make the tool a power of spirit, and how does he draw from this an analysis of the division of labor, money, and civil society?A chapter of Marx written by Hegel • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani · 22 May 2021
  8. How does the passage from modal music to tonal music, starting with the legend of Paul the Deacon's "lost voice," mark the West's entry into modernity?From the lost voice to the path of modernity • From modal music to tonal music • D Pagani · 23 May 2021
  9. In what way, in man, does code precede being?BEING BORN HUMAN IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE HUMAN • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani · 19 Jul 2021
  10. Why does the societal left that calls itself "woke" play into the hands of the right, and how can a language common to the human tribe be recovered?Left-washing: Are the woke the most asleep? · 17 Nov 2021
  11. Are femininity and feminism compatible or different?The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner · 6 Feb 2022
  12. What does Heidegger have in mind when he traces the atomic bomb back to Descartes's cogito, and what does the ideological use of the word "nature" conceal?Panzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature. Heidegger/Descartes · 5 Mar 2022
  13. Why is romanticism ambivalent between aesthetics and politics, and in what sense are surface, reflection and landscape more profound than the depths?Dominique Pagani - Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics · 20 May 2022
  14. Is security a matter of conservatism or of revolution?Security: Is it conservatism or Revolution? - Dominique Pagani · 12 Jul 2022
Readings on the spotSeries
  1. How does Mallarmé, a poet reputed to be aristocratic and hermetic, stage the class struggle and the condition of the working class in "Conflit"?Mallarmé, or class struggle on the lawn - Readings on the Spot · 31 Jan 2023
  2. What do two paragraphs of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil reveal about the music to come and the German soul?Nietzsche, or the Great Ninny - Readings on the Spot · 7 Feb 2023
  3. What does Aragon's "Le Paysan de Paris chante" say about working-class Paris and demonstrations, and how does this poem from the Resistance connect with current events?Aragon "The Paris Peasant Sings" - Readings on the Spot · 5 Aug 2023
  4. Why, according to Kleist, does grace appear only in the marionette or in god, and never in the man who reflects?Kleist "On the Marionette Theatre" - Pagani - Readings on the Spot · 29 Sept 2023
  5. What does the question "Est-ce ancienne sauvagerie qu'on pardonne ?" mean in Rimbaud's "Mouvement," posed before a young couple in the midst of a hymn to industrial modernity?OUR FORMER SAVAGERY? - An impromptu reading of an Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud · 13 Jun 2025
  6. What does amorous desire seek through the body and the gaze: someone or something?From Plato to Proust - Readings on the Spot · 6 Jul 2026
Analytical ReveriesSeries
  1. What silent element links texts that are never brought together: the sound coming from the castle in Kafka, Mignon's song in Goethe, and the eternal feminine as commented on by Wagner?#1 Mignon, or the song of silence · 7 Apr 2021
  2. Under what condition can a revolutionary dream, and what does this dream teach us about the place of the subject and of finality in history?#2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams · 18 Apr 2021
  3. Where would we want to remain: what does the quest for lodging, in Nerval's Promenades et Souvenirs, becoming a quest for a voice, reveal?#3 Nomad or sedentary? - The case of Nerval · 6 Jun 2021
  4. Does the apparent randomness of Nerval's wanderings in Promenades et souvenirs conceal a necessity, that of mourning the mother and returning to origins?#4 Nomad and sedentary - The case of Nerval · 4 Oct 2021
A Philosophical AlphabetSeries
  1. Is Antigone the figure of the individual who opposes the state?A for Antigone · 15 Dec 2014
  2. What brings baroque music and rock together, and what does this connection reveal about the relationship between popular and learned music?B for Bach · 16 Dec 2014
  3. Are we really in a consumer society, and do we consume too much?C for Consumption · 17 Dec 2014
  4. What is the place of desire in philosophy and in today's society?D for Desire · 17 Dec 2014
  5. How do childhood, Émile and the island of Ermenonville help us understand Rousseau?E for Enfance (Childhood) · 19 Dec 2014
  6. Is farniente, doing nothing, a value, and what is it worth depending on the situation of the one who indulges in it?F for Farniente · 20 Dec 2014
  7. In what sense can a philosopher call himself a man of the left?G for Gauche (the Left) · 21 Dec 2014
  8. Why has Hegel disappeared from the 'radar screens' of philosophical debate?H for Hegel · 22 Dec 2014
  9. What does the figure of the island mean, from Robinson to the île des Peupliers, where Rousseau's tomb is located at Ermenonville?I for Island · 23 Dec 2014
  10. Is youth, in Rousseau, a passing state or a definitive one?J for Jeunesse (Youth) · 24 Dec 2014
  11. Should we believe in the return of Marx, and under what conditions does this return not betray him?K for Karl · 25 Dec 2014
  12. What is it to be free, and how does freedom differ from libertarian liberalism?L for Liberty · 26 Dec 2014
  13. What relation does music have with time, with language and, in Rousseau, with writing?M for Music · 27 Dec 2014
  14. What has the experience of Africa taught Dominique Pagani?N for Niger · 28 Dec 2014
  15. Should one be against, with, or "against with": how can opposition be thought without falling into one-sidedness?O for Opposition · 29 Dec 2014
  16. What is a people, and how does one distinguish the popular from the populist, from pop music, and from « people » culture?P for People · 30 Dec 2014
  17. What does a quality say, and what are we talking about when we qualify a thing?Q for Quality · 31 Dec 2014
  18. What exactly does reverie mean, and what would an eleventh promenade of Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker look like?R for Reverie · 1 Jan 2015
  19. What is the savage, and is savagery the lowest point of humanity?S for Savagery · 2 Jan 2015
  20. Why is geometry necessary for philosophy to rise to the universal, and why is it not sufficient?T for Triangle · 3 Jan 2015
  21. What does Nietzsche's notion of the superman cover, and what does it become when related to the notion of the subhuman?U for Übermensch · 4 Jan 2015
  22. Is vengeance a moral concept, or first of all a legal concept?V for Vengeance · 5 Jan 2015
  23. Who is Wolmar in Julie, or the New Heloise, and thereby who is Julie?W for Wolmar · 6 Jan 2015
  24. Why does Socrates choose Xanthippe, the shrew, and refuse Alcibiades, the most beautiful man in Athens?X for Xanthippe · 7 Jan 2015
  25. How can one distinguish the imaginary from illusion, and what is the place of the imaginary in creation and in politics?Y for Yonville · 8 Jan 2015
  26. Why is there something rather than nothing, and what does zero mean for man?Z for Zero · 9 Jan 2015
On Michel ClouscardSeries
  1. How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and revealed by May 68, summed up in the formula "everything is permitted, but nothing is possible"?EVERYTHING IS ALLOWED, NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68 and the capitalism of seduction · 14 Jul 2021
  2. How should we read Michel Clouscard's Les Chemins de la praxis, and why does this book oppose Heidegger, philosopher of the counter-revolution, to Plato, philosopher of the revolution?Dominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 1/2 · 8 Dec 2015
  3. Why does Clouscard, in Les Chemins de la praxis, pass through Hegel and ontology to think social being, and what becomes of the notion of identity?Dominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 2/2 · 8 Dec 2015
  4. What does Michel Clouscard's response to Claude Morilhat (1987) reveal about the place of philosophy and about his concept of neo-Kantianism?D. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987) · 23 Aug 2019
  5. How does Michel Clouscard's reply to Claude Morilhat illuminate the form of his writing, the relation of image to concept, and the question of the State?D. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat • Part Two · 10 Sept 2019
  6. What does Michel Clouscard's thought contribute to understanding the capitalism that emerged from May 68?Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 1 · 6 Jul 2012
  7. How does Michel Clouscard analyze the passage, since May 68, to a capitalism that exploits in production and liberates in consumption?Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 2 · 7 Jul 2012
  8. What does Michel Clouscard's life tell us about his thought, and why does this long-ignored thought impose itself today?With Clouscard · 2 Aug 2016
  9. What does the concept of neo-kantianism mean in Michel Clouscard's L'Être et le Code, and why does this book, which restores the precapitalist history of France, remain relevant today?Being and Code · 5 Jul 2018
  10. What does Clouscard's formula "Everything is permitted but nothing is possible" cover, and how does it illuminate so-called consumer society, the Marshall Plan and May 68?Everything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 1 · 29 Jan 2012
  11. Why does Clouscard criticize "libertarian liberalism," and what becomes of this critique when applied to the state, the societal, and music?Everything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 2 · 29 Jan 2012
  12. How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and May 68, summed up in the formula "everything's allowed, but nothing is possible"?EVERYTHING'S ALLOWED, BUT NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68, French Theory & Capitalism · 14 Jul 2021
  13. Why is Michel Clouscard's work indispensable, and why must it be translated into English?Why is Clouscard indispensable? (ENG SUBTITLES) And his translation into English too! · 3 Jan 2023
Play ▷II PauseSeries
  1. What is the value of Michel Foucault's project, in his 1966 interview, of an ethnology of our own knowledge that announces the end of philosophy and the death of man?Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault · 2 May 2019
  2. What does the collapsologist discourse of Pablo Servigne conceal beneath its scientific appearance?Dominique Pagani ▷II Pablo Servigne · 12 Mar 2019
Hegel & Marx on the BeachSeries
  1. How should we read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in light of the historical upheaval and the Romantic crisis from which it emerged?Hegel on the Beach 1/5 · 1 Feb 2016
  2. In what way does Hegel, and first of all the Phenomenology of Spirit, remain relevant against a contemporary thought that presents itself as anti-Hegelian?Hegel on the Beach 2/5 · 1 Feb 2016
  3. How does the phenomenology of spirit, by refusing to treat knowledge as a preliminary instrument, shift truth from the sensible object to the subject?Hegel on the Beach 3/5 · 2 Feb 2016
  4. How does the negation of the negation make it possible to understand individuality, labor, the struggle for recognition between master and slave, and the meaning of history as freedom?Hegel on the Beach 4/5 · 2 Feb 2016
  5. How does aesthetic appearance, down to the gleam of a look, express the material and historical richness of a world, and why does recognition between subjects pass through the thing?Hegel on the Beach 5/5 · 2 Feb 2016
  6. What does Marx mean when he affirms that men enter into relations of production independent of their will, and in what sense do these relations form "the unconscious of the unconscious"?Marx on the Beach 1/2 · 1 Feb 2016
  7. What gives a commodity its value, and how is surplus value at the core of Marx's analysis?Marx on the Beach 2/2 · 1 Feb 2016
What Is to Be Done?Series
  1. What is to be done, and why does the answer require a theoretical detour through Rousseau and his conception of happiness?What is to be done? 1/3 · 29 Jan 2016
  2. What does the passage from the state of nature to the civil state mean in Rousseau, and why does the Social Contract begin by rejecting force as a foundation of right?What is to be done? 2/3 · 29 Jan 2016
  3. How can one respond to the question "what is to be done?" through a theoretical detour, and how does Rousseau, between the praise of labor and the praise of idleness, found property, happiness, and the beauty of landscape on praxis?What is to be done? 3/3 · 29 Jan 2016
Interviews for L’AffranchiSeries
  1. Did the European Union bring peace to Europe?The EU means war! - excerpt (5min) · 18 Sept 2014
  2. Who is Dominique Pagani, and how does he judge the railway workers' strike and the European Union?#1 Presentation; the EU; Clouscard; Rousseau. · 20 Sept 2014
  3. Why can one say, with Goethe, that with Rousseau a world begins?#2 Rousseau, a world that begins · 20 Sept 2014
  4. What does the "noble savage" mean in Rousseau, and what do his draft constitution for Corsica and the theme of the island reveal about his relation to nature and society?#3 The myth of the noble savage in Rousseau! · 23 Sept 2014
  5. How does Michel Clouscard link praxis and psyche, and why does he see in May '68 and the ideology of desire a counter-revolution that prepares a neofascism?#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard. · 26 Sept 2014
  6. What does the notion of "consumer society" cover, and how does Clouscard's concept of libertarian liberalism allow us to analyze contemporary capitalism, down to musical consumption?#5 Libertarian liberalism, libidinal consumption and music... · 27 Sept 2014
Prefaces and AfterwordsSeries
  1. What does the concept of neo-kantianism mean in Michel Clouscard's L'Être et le Code, and why does this book, which restores the precapitalist history of France, remain relevant today?Preface to Simon Verdun's master's dissertation, "The critique of neo-Kantianism in Michel Clouscard", defended at the ENS in Paris, awarded the highest distinction. · 5 Jul 2018
  2. What does the collapsologist discourse of Pablo Servigne conceal beneath its scientific appearance?Dominique Pagani: "What threatens societies are the men and women who benefit from the exploitation of others" · 12 Mar 2019
  3. What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?Ecologism is the opium of the beautiful people: Preface to Dominique Mazuet's book "Of Calves and Things" · 4 Oct 2020
  4. How do childhood, Émile and the island of Ermenonville help us understand Rousseau?"On a triangle of madness at the heart of modern consciousness" · 19 Dec 2014
  5. Why is globalized, repetitive and binary music, broadcast everywhere since the 1950s, a music of enslavement and amnesia?Discussion between Aliocha Allard and Dominique Pagani, 29 March 2017 · 26 Feb 2019
  6. Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?"SHOULD WE SAVE PRIVATE LORDON?" - Afterword to the Delga reissue of Michel Clouscard's book Neo-Fascism and the Ideology of Desire · 1 Aug 2017
At the Tropiques bookshopTalks
  1. How can a book give linear form to Dominique Pagani's oral teaching, and what does this teaching say about the specificity of philosophy, of modernity, and of the question "what must I do"?Pagani without detours · 21 Sept 2019
  2. Why is Hegel's logic, long treated as a "dead dog," a logic of revolutionary political discourse that allows a critique of contemporary apoliticism?Tribute to Domenico Losurdo · 2 Jul 2018
  3. What relation unites Arendt's conception of Nazism and totalitarianism with Heidegger's conception of thought, and how has this relation served to exonerate Heidegger and Schmitt?Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought · 24 Sept 2020
  4. Does the yellow vests movement mark, in light of Hegel and Marx, the return of the social against the societal, and what then becomes of the thesis of the end of history?Hegel and the yellow vests (Part 1) · 13 Feb 2019
  5. What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?Calves and Things, preface by Dominique Pagani · 4 Oct 2020
  6. Why is ecologism a class ideology of capitalism, and what does the reference to Foucault's Les Mots et les choses in the title of the book Les Veaux et les choses mean?Calves and Things (2): Ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism? · 5 Oct 2020
  7. Is political ecology anything other than the aesthetic surface of dominant liberal ideology?Calves and Things (3): The dictatorship of the bobotariat · 6 Oct 2020
  8. Why does Stanislas Spero Adotevi criticize négritude, and why must the Black question be thought in terms of class and universality rather than race?Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1) · 17 Jun 2017
  9. What was the target of the critique of négritude in "Négritude et négrologues"? How did Césaire and Senghor receive the book?Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2) · 17 Jun 2017
  10. What does Stanislas Adotevi show in Négritude et négrologues, and why does his critique of the essentialism of negritude disturb even more today?Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017) · 8 Jun 2017
  11. Why and how could Jacques D'Hondt call himself a Hegelian without adopting the manifest content of Hegelianism?Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1) · 2 Aug 2016
  12. How did Jacques D'Hondt's work undo the image of a conservative Hegel, philosopher of the Restoration, to make him instead the philosopher of living history and of the French Revolution?Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2) · 2 Aug 2016
  13. Must we accept the two persistent ideas that make Hegel a totalitarian thinker and condemn dialectic, and what can Hegel contribute to thinking about the present world?Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3) · 2 Aug 2016
  14. Why must we reread today Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a philosophy of the true, opposed to the philosophy of sense?The Phenomenology of Spirit · 2 Jul 2018
  15. What does Le voyage de la fanfare show, a novel about a brass band from Ajaccio invited in 1978 by Bokassa to the Central African Republic, about ordinary Corsican people and their encounter with Africa?The brass band's journey - by Dominique Memmi · 6 Dec 2019
  16. Why must the political today be repoliticized, against the reduction of objectivity to intersubjectivity?Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 1 · 12 Mar 2018
  17. Why must we "repoliticize the political," and what does the debate between Hegel, Marx and Sartre on totality and totalization say?Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 2 · 31 Mar 2018
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityTalks
  1. What separates a "world before" from a "world after", and is the health crisis a revolution or the acceleration of trends already at work?The World Before, The World After - Part 1 · 16 Jan 2021
  2. How should the "world after" the Covid crisis be judged, and under what conditions can one still speak of progress?The World Before, The World After - Part 2 · 16 Jan 2021
  3. What does music teach us about the history of peoples, once we have defined what is properly musical in music?The Music of History · 26 Apr 2015
  4. Why is money, the most vile thing there is, so close to the sacred, and how can we get out of this religion of money?The religion of Money · 29 Sept 2019
  5. What does Marx's sentence "in the social production of their existence, men enter into determined relations" mean, and how does it illuminate the world today?Dominique Pagani "On Marx" · 6 Oct 2018
  6. Is money only the power that perverts all values, or a medium whose problem lies in its distribution?Money, work, freedom · 3 Aug 2019
  7. Why does myth, which philosophy sought to set aside in favor of rational discourse, always come back, and what truth does it express?Mythology and Truth · 8 Aug 2015
  8. Is history a subject matter, and whose history, of what, do we make?Is History a subject? · 9 Mar 2017
  9. Is beauty a matter of individual taste, or can it be learned through an education that brings us into contact with works of art?Education: can the Beautiful be learned? · 20 Jul 2018
  10. What makes a group of men a people rather than a crowd, and why must the notion of totality be defended against the use of the word "totalitarian"?L'île du Peuple: the debate · 23 Jun 2015
On other channelsTalks
  1. Do Michel Clouscard's theses in Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir still make it possible to understand libertarian liberalism, neofascism, and today's revolutionary subject?NEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI · 23 May 2026
  2. What does Emmanuel Macron's discourse on French failure in Mali conceal, and where do the rebellion and the crisis in the Sahel come from?MALI: Dominique PAGANI REACTS to Emmanuel MACRON's remarks at the Africa Forward summit · 16 May 2026
  3. What is libertarian liberalism according to Michel Clouscard, and why does May 68 mark its birth?[INTERVIEW] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard and the betrayal of May 68 · 7 Feb 2025
  4. Why is Napoleon of interest to philosophy, and what does Hegel's concept of the cunning of reason show about him?"Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning", with Dominique Pagani · 2 Dec 2024
  5. What is today the dominant element exploiting the Sahelian Africa, and why must it be called imperialism rather than colonialism?SAHELIAN AFRICA AND IMPERIALISM: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - with Dominique PAGANI · 23 Mar 2024
  6. Does the right-left divide still make sense, and how does Dominique Pagani differ from Loïc Chaigneau?DOMINIQUE PAGANI TAKES ME TO TASK OVER LOÏC CHAIGNEAU!! · 21 Dec 2023
  7. What do childhood, Émile and Ermenonville teach us about Rousseau, and why is the island the symbol without which he cannot be understood?PHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: E for ENFANCE (CHILDHOOD) · 4 Jun 2023
  8. How does modernity shift the balance between pleasure and happiness, and what place do worldliness, code and artifice hold in it?Dominique Pagani: From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment · 29 May 2023
  9. What place and what content should be given to desire, which philosophy has never stopped thinking about, in today's society?PHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: D for DESIRE · 29 May 2023
  10. How did Rousseau, first of all, unite praxis and psyche, and how does this synthesis continue in revolutionary thought, from Hegel and Marx to Clouscard?Interview with Dominique Pagani, praxis and psyche · 27 Mar 2023
  11. Is Antigone the figure of the individual who opposes the state?PHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: A for ANTIGONE · 20 Mar 2023
  12. In what way is the Socratic initiative the origin of a revolution whose effects are not yet exhausted?From Plato to world revolution, by Dominique Pagani · 14 Jul 2022
  13. How can we read Hölderlin, given his contradictory receptions, and what does his poetry matter to communist militants?Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poetry and politics · 19 Mar 2022
Other videosTalks
  1. Does a communism already exist, as a "real movement," within the institutions won in 1946, and how can it be philosophically thought and defended in current struggles?In conversation: Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1 June 2018 · 12 Jun 2018
  2. What should be understood by work, and by the right to work, from La Bruyère to Marx, by way of Rousseau and Hegel?Marxist Café - Work and the right to work · 20 May 2018
  3. Why is globalized, repetitive and binary music, broadcast everywhere since the 1950s, a music of enslavement and amnesia?La Fausse Note (English Subtitles), a film by Aliocha · 26 Feb 2019
  4. How can Niger's traditional music be preserved and transmitted while opening its musicians to other repertoires?The clash of cultures /K. Souleymane (Niger - Pagani) · 19 May 2018
  5. What do African Francophonie, the misreadings of Clouscard, and the fusion of genres reveal about the modernity born of the French Revolution?At the bistro with Pagani: part 1 · 18 Jun 2016
  6. How does Rousseau open the sequence that runs to Lenin, and what becomes of this legacy in Nerval, the romantics, Clouscard and Nietzsche?At the bistro with Pagani: part 2 · 19 Jun 2016
  7. Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?Should we save Private Lordon? Dominique Pagani read by G.Protche · 1 Aug 2017
  8. Why are the dogmatist and the skeptic the philosopher's two enemies?The philosopher's two enemies: The dogmatist and the sceptic. · 16 Nov 2017
  9. What do the statue-menhirs of the Valinco gulf, raised between sea and mountain, signify?Between sea and mountain, the standing stones of Valinco (The Corsican Neolithic) · 24 Nov 2020

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