Marxism
51 videos, newest first.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani approaches Marxism first through the link between Marx and Hegel. He sets Lenin's reading of the Logic against the decoupling carried out by Althusser, and he places Marx in a lineage running from Rousseau through Kant and Hegel to Marx, which rules out an anti-humanist Marx1. He repeatedly comments on the 1859 preface: productive forces, relations of production, mode of production, ideology, and the contradiction that opens an epoch of social revolution. With Clouscard, he treats production as "the unconscious of the unconscious"2. He stresses praxis and the tool, already conceived by Hegel, and the union of praxis and psyche, which goes back to Rousseau3. He applies Marxist categories where they are least expected, in Phèdre or in Proust4, and, with Clouscard, he reads May 68 as a societal counter-revolution5. He criticizes naturalist readings of Marx, notably Lordon's, as well as ecologism. Finally, he distinguishes the end of history in Hegel from the end of prehistory in Marx.
- 1K comme Karl25 Dec 2014
- 2Marx Plage 1/21 Feb 2016
- 3Entretien avec Dominique Pagani, praxis et psyché27 Mar 2023
- 4#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020
- 5[ENTRETIEN] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard et la trahison de mai 687 Feb 2025
Introduction produced automatically from the 51 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 51 videos
Jeunesse du MondeNEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI
23 May 2026Do 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?
Season 13The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society
9 Aug 2025What do money, neopositivism, and bourgeois civil society have in common in the repression of the subject and self-knowledge?
Le Précepteur[INTERVIEW] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard and the betrayal of May 68
7 Feb 2025What is libertarian liberalism according to Michel Clouscard, and why does May 68 mark its birth?
Season 13Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle
2 Sept 2024How does Clouscard's thought, read from Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes and its relation to Rousseau, account for the present situation?
Season 12Clouscard by you - Answers to your questions
28 Feb 2024What 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?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom??
3 Sept 2023What is the object of human desire in our modernity, and who is its subject?
PaduTeamPHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: D for DESIRE
29 May 2023What place and what content should be given to desire, which philosophy has never stopped thinking about, in today's society?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all
18 May 2023Why 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?
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?
Season 1010#7 "Post-modern" eco-petty-Nazism - Plato's Gorgias
23 Dec 2021Why does "post-modern" thought, which claims descent from Nietzsche, deify nature and despise equality merely repeat the thesis of Callicles in Plato's Gorgias?
Analytical Reveries#2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams
18 Apr 2021Under what condition can a revolutionary dream, and what does this dream teach us about the place of the subject and of finality in history?
Season 9.29 #16 How can sciences of history be real?
4 Mar 2021How can sciences of history be real, and how has the relation of the sciences to philosophy evolved since Aristotle's philosophical imperialism?
Season 9.29 #14 How can sciences of history be real?
5 Feb 2021How can sciences of history be real, if the determinism of the natural sciences seems to exclude freedom?
Season 9.1#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
17 Dec 2020Can 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?
Season 9.1#7 Answers to questions (continued)
3 Dec 2020How 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?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things (3): The dictatorship of the bobotariat
6 Oct 2020Is political ecology anything other than the aesthetic surface of dominant liberal ideology?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things (2): Ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?
5 Oct 2020Why 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?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things, preface by Dominique Pagani
4 Oct 2020What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?
At the Tropiques bookshopPagani without detours
21 Sept 2019How 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"?
On Michel ClouscardD. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat • Part Two
10 Sept 2019How 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?
On Michel ClouscardD. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987)
23 Aug 2019What does Michel Clouscard's response to Claude Morilhat (1987) reveal about the place of philosophy and about his concept of neo-Kantianism?
At the Tropiques bookshopHegel and the yellow vests (Part 1)
13 Feb 2019Does 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?
Season 5.1#5.3 bis FaceBookLive / Questions
13 Jan 2019What 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?
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 5.1#5.0 Presentation of the 2018-19 Workshop Season
15 Oct 2018How can we think revolutionary thought from Rousseau to Lenin without separating the study of praxis from the consideration of the psyche?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityDominique Pagani "On Marx"
6 Oct 2018What 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?
On Michel ClouscardBeing and Code
5 Jul 2018What 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?
At the Tropiques bookshopTribute to Domenico Losurdo
2 Jul 2018Why is Hegel's logic, long treated as a "dead dog," a logic of revolutionary political discourse that allows a critique of contemporary apoliticism?
At the Tropiques bookshopThe Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Jul 2018Why must we reread today Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a philosophy of the true, opposed to the philosophy of sense?
Season 4#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)
16 May 2018In 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?
At the Tropiques bookshopTonight, we repoliticise. Part 2
31 Mar 2018Why must we "repoliticize the political," and what does the debate between Hegel, Marx and Sartre on totality and totalization say?
At the Tropiques bookshopTonight, we repoliticise. Part 1
12 Mar 2018Why must the political today be repoliticized, against the reduction of objectivity to intersubjectivity?
Season 4#4.4B Objections to Dominique Pagani
4 Feb 2018Why go through Nerval and the concept of modernity to think the historical present, dominated by capital?
Season 2#2.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
1 Aug 2017How 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?
Other videosShould we save Private Lordon? Dominique Pagani read by G.Protche
1 Aug 2017Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?
At the Tropiques bookshopAdotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)
17 Jun 2017Why does Stanislas Spero Adotevi criticize négritude, and why must the Black question be thought in terms of class and universality rather than race?
At the Tropiques bookshopAdotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2)
17 Jun 2017What was the target of the critique of négritude in "Négritude et négrologues"? How did Césaire and Senghor receive the book?
At the Tropiques bookshopTribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)
2 Aug 2016Why and how could Jacques D'Hondt call himself a Hegelian without adopting the manifest content of Hegelianism?
Other videosAt the bistro with Pagani: part 2
19 Jun 2016How does Rousseau open the sequence that runs to Lenin, and what becomes of this legacy in Nerval, the romantics, Clouscard and Nietzsche?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 5/5
2 Feb 2016How 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 & Marx on the BeachMarx on the Beach 1/2
1 Feb 2016What 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"?
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?
On Michel ClouscardDominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 2/2
8 Dec 2015Why 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?
A Philosophical AlphabetK for Karl
25 Dec 2014Should we believe in the return of Marx, and under what conditions does this return not betray him?
A Philosophical AlphabetH for Hegel
22 Dec 2014Why has Hegel disappeared from the 'radar screens' of philosophical debate?
A Philosophical AlphabetD for Desire
17 Dec 2014What is the place of desire in philosophy and in today's society?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard.
26 Sept 2014How 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#2 Rousseau, a world that begins
20 Sept 2014Why can one say, with Goethe, that with Rousseau a world begins?
On Michel ClouscardRadio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 2
7 Jul 2012How does Michel Clouscard analyze the passage, since May 68, to a capitalism that exploits in production and liberates in consumption?
On Michel ClouscardRadio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 1
6 Jul 2012What does Michel Clouscard's thought contribute to understanding the capitalism that emerged from May 68?