Religion

Season 14

What distinguishes Plato from Aristotle, the two poles between which the history of philosophy has oscillated for 2500 years?

Café marxiste

What is today the dominant element exploiting the Sahelian Africa, and why must it be called imperialism rather than colonialism?

Season 12

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

Season 12

How can we think the contradiction within the subject, the negativity immanent to the self, and why do we repress it?

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 9.1

Why does the nostalgia for a lost substance found every reactionary ideology, and what does the ambivalence of memory and language reveal?

Season 9.1

How does the site dominiquepagani.fr organize access to the workshops, publications, texts, and musical resources?

Season 8

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?

Season 8

Does a privation of truth exist, a lie to oneself, that is not culpable, provided it is accompanied by social justice?

Season 7

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

Season 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?

Season 7

If access to truth is irreversible, why does modern consciousness seek to flee it?

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 6

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"?

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?

Season 5.2

How does landscape reach its highest poetic value when the visible setting fades to become an interior landscape?

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

Season 5.1

How does Rousseau open a sequence of revolutionary thought that leads to Lenin, and what dialectical thread runs through it?

Season 4

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?

Season 3

Why does Plato's allegory of the cave already contain the whole program of philosophy, from knowledge to the return to politics?

Season 3

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?

Other videos

What do African Francophonie, the misreadings of Clouscard, and the fusion of genres reveal about the modernity born of the French Revolution?

Hegel & Marx on the Beach

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"?

Season 1

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?

A Philosophical Alphabet

Why has Hegel disappeared from the 'radar screens' of philosophical debate?