German idealism
12 videos, newest first.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani approaches German idealism through the generation of 1770. He describes it from the Tübingen Stift, where Hegel, Schelling and Hölderlin plant a liberty tree, and places it between the French Revolution and the industrial revolution1. He shows that it is caught between the rational legacy of the Enlightenment and Romantic escapism, whose poets die young, mad or by suicide. Following Jacques D'Hondt, he attributes part of its obscurity to the effort to get around censorship2. He traces post-Kantianism from Fichte to Schelling and then to Hegel, who synthesizes it3. In his view, these thinkers discover a rationality in human affairs, against the Kantians who "gave strength back to theology"4. He reads the Oldest Systematic Program, which makes the aesthetic act the supreme act of reason, and notes that Hegel will later reverse this hierarchy5. Finally, he recalls that Marx credits German idealism with having stressed activity, contrary to what Althusser maintains6. He defends this same heritage against Baeumler's Nazi anti-Hegelianism and against Heidegger's reading of Hölderlin.
- 1Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016
- 2Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022
- 3"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023
- 4#4.3 Angélique (de Nerval)11 Dec 2017
- 510#2 Dialectiques de l'identité et de la différence6 Oct 2021
- 6Entretien avec Dominique Pagani, praxis et psyché27 Mar 2023
Introduction produced automatically from the 12 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 12 videos
Season 12"I is another", or contradictory identity
12 Dec 2023How can we think the contradiction within the subject, the negativity immanent to the self, and why do we repress it?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard - The world as "cunning of reason"
22 Jul 2023How can reason, which has essence but not existence, produce a world, and why must it resort to cunning for this?
Communistes FrançaisInterview with Dominique Pagani, praxis and psyche
27 Mar 2023How did Rousseau, first of all, unite praxis and psyche, and how does this synthesis continue in revolutionary thought, from Hegel and Marx to Clouscard?
Season 11Clouscard and the problem of Socrates
14 Oct 2022How, starting from ordinary ideological language, do we arrive at the necessity of the concept?
Le Gros Rouge Qui TâcheDominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poetry and politics
19 Mar 2022How can we read Hölderlin, given his contradictory receptions, and what does his poetry matter to communist militants?
Season 1010#2 Dialectics of identity and difference
6 Oct 2021What relation, and what hierarchy, does Hegel establish between aesthetics and politics, based on the opposition between the family and the city embodied by Antigone?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 18. What is musical in music
25 Mar 2021What is musical in music?
Season 5.1#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought
21 Nov 2018Why 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?
Season 4#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)
11 Dec 2017How 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?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 2/5
1 Feb 2016In 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 & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 1/5
1 Feb 2016How should we read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in light of the historical upheaval and the Romantic crisis from which it emerged?
On Michel ClouscardDominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 1/2
8 Dec 2015How 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?