Capitalism

Season 14

What is meant by fascism today, and why is war its worst expression?

Season 13

Why must the State, understood as general will, be distinguished from the State apparatus that oppresses?

Season 13

What does money reveal about desire and self-knowledge, and why speak of a dialectic of matter rather than a dialectic of nature?

Le Précepteur

What is libertarian liberalism according to Michel Clouscard, and why does May 68 mark its birth?

Season 12

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"?

Season 12

The quest for the Grail, as Wagner takes it up again in Parsifal, is it a Christian piety or a sacrilegious work?

Season 12

In what sense can secularism be called the "truth" of religion, that is, what accomplishes it by abolishing it?

Season 11

How can reason, which has essence but not existence, produce a world, and why must it resort to cunning for this?

Season 11

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?

Season 11

Does Clouscard put desire itself on trial, or the ideology of desire?

On Michel Clouscard

Why is Michel Clouscard's work indispensable, and why must it be translated into English?

Season 11

How can philosophy, which hesitates between the rigor of mathematics and the language of poetry, take the subject into account?

Season 10

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"?

Questions and answers

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?

Season 10

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?

Season 10

What does the geopolitical situation in eastern Europe and the Sahel reveal about the crisis of capitalism and the danger of war?

Season 10

Why does aesthetics remain tied to a political stake in Hegel, and why does the tragedy of Antigone still hold for the modern world?

Season 10

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?

On Michel Clouscard

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"?

On Michel Clouscard

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"?

Questions and answers

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?

Questions and answers

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?

Season 9.2

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?

Season 9.2

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?

Questions and answers

Is there a balance in nature that man has come to disturb, or does this idea project the ideology of the market onto nature?

Season 9.2

Under what conditions is a discourse scientific, and how does science turn into scientism when applied to the human world?

Season 9.2

How can sciences of history be real, if the determinism of the natural sciences seems to exclude freedom?

Season 9.2

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?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

How should the "world after" the Covid crisis be judged, and under what conditions can one still speak of progress?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

What separates a "world before" from a "world after", and is the health crisis a revolution or the acceleration of trends already at work?

Musicosophie

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?

Musicosophie

How does the "people" music born in the 1950s enclose young people worldwide in sound ghettos, and how can one escape it?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Is political ecology anything other than the aesthetic surface of dominant liberal ideology?

At the Tropiques bookshop

What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?

Season 8

What does the confinement of the era reveal, and what form of solidarity, camaraderie or community, allows us to face it?

Season 7

What is lying, and how is lying to oneself related to ideology, repression, and negativity?

Season 7

What does the ongoing crisis reveal, read through Marx's dialectic and through the ideology of Heidegger, Jünger and Nietzsche documented by Domenico Losurdo?

Season 7

How does romanticism, the first expression of modernity, express the unhappiness of absolute knowledge, and how can one escape it through a collective subject?

Season 7

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?

Season 6

Why does the access to absolute knowledge in modernity symmetrically engender the temptation of an absolute non-knowledge, which leads as far as Nazism?

Season 7

What form will the live sessions offered during the confinement take, and in what spirit?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

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?

On Michel Clouscard

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?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Is money only the power that perverts all values, or a medium whose problem lies in its distribution?

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What does the collapsologist discourse of Pablo Servigne conceal beneath its scientific appearance?

Season 5.1

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?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

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?

Other videos

What should be understood by work, and by the right to work, from La Bruyère to Marx, by way of Rousseau and Hegel?

Season 4

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?

Season 4

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"?

Other videos

Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?

Season 2

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?

On Michel Clouscard

What does Michel Clouscard's life tell us about his thought, and why does this long-ignored thought impose itself today?

Hegel & Marx on the Beach

What gives a commodity its value, and how is surplus value at the core of Marx's analysis?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

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"?

A Philosophical Alphabet

Why does Socrates choose Xanthippe, the shrew, and refuse Alcibiades, the most beautiful man in Athens?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What is the savage, and is savagery the lowest point of humanity?

A Philosophical Alphabet

Are we really in a consumer society, and do we consume too much?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

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?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

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?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

Why can one say, with Goethe, that with Rousseau a world begins?

On Michel Clouscard

How does Michel Clouscard analyze the passage, since May 68, to a capitalism that exploits in production and liberates in consumption?

On Michel Clouscard

What does Michel Clouscard's thought contribute to understanding the capitalism that emerged from May 68?

On Michel Clouscard

Why does Clouscard criticize "libertarian liberalism," and what becomes of this critique when applied to the state, the societal, and music?

On Michel Clouscard

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?