French Revolution

Jeunesse du Monde

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?

Season 14

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

Season 14

What is rightly called fascism, and how can we recognize its return today?

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?

dominique bintou

Why is Napoleon of interest to philosophy, and what does Hegel's concept of the cunning of reason show about him?

Season 13

How does Clouscard's thought, read from Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes and its relation to Rousseau, account for the present situation?

Season 12

What is dialectic, if it hinges on the internal contradiction of a subject between opposed and mutually necessary moments?

Readings on the spot

Why, according to Kleist, does grace appear only in the marionette or in god, and never in the man who reflects?

Readings on the spot

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?

Le Gros Rouge Qui Tâche

How can we read Hölderlin, given his contradictory receptions, and what does his poetry matter to communist militants?

Questions and answers

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?

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?

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?

Questions and answers

Is the autonomy claimed today by those who go off to live in nature a freedom or a way of freeing oneself from humanity?

Season 9.2

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

Musicosophie

What does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?

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

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?

Musicosophie

Why does the history of music make happy and morbid musics alternate, and what is the happiness that they express?

Musicosophie

How does modern music, since Beethoven, oscillate between the popular demand for happiness and the romantic fascination with the death drive?

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 8

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

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

When is romanticism, the first expression of modernity, progressive, and when does it become reactionary in the face of access to absolute knowledge?

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?

Introduction to the workshops

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?

Season 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?

At the Tropiques bookshop

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"?

On Michel Clouscard

What does Michel Clouscard's response to Claude Morilhat (1987) reveal about the place of philosophy and about his concept of neo-Kantianism?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

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

Season 5.2

What distinguishes nature from landscape, and how does the beauty of landscape relate to freedom and property?

Season 5.2

How do revolutionary thought and the question "nature or landscape" fit together, and what distinguishes nature from landscape?

At the Tropiques bookshop

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?

Season 5.2

Are nature and landscape interchangeable terms?

Season 5.1

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?

Season 5.1

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

At the Tropiques bookshop

Why 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 bookshop

Why must we reread today Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a philosophy of the true, opposed to the philosophy of sense?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Why must we "repoliticize the political," and what does the debate between Hegel, Marx and Sartre on totality and totalization say?

Season 4

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?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Why must the political today be repoliticized, against the reduction of objectivity to intersubjectivity?

Season 4

Does Nerval's itinerary in Angélique owe anything to chance, and what is meant by chance?

Season 4

Why go through Nerval and the concept of modernity to think the historical present, dominated by capital?

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 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?

Season 3

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?

At the Tropiques bookshop

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?

At the Tropiques bookshop

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?

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

How should we read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in light of the historical upheaval and the Romantic crisis from which it emerged?

Season 1

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?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

What does music teach us about the history of peoples, once we have defined what is properly musical in music?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What is a people, and how does one distinguish the popular from the populist, from pop music, and from « people » culture?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What does the figure of the island mean, from Robinson to the île des Peupliers, where Rousseau's tomb is located at Ermenonville?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

Who is Dominique Pagani, and how does he judge the railway workers' strike and the European Union?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

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

On Michel Clouscard

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