Series · 2011
What Is to Be Done?
“Answering the call of the rebellious generations, Dominique Pagani came out of his cave”, a year before the tercentenary of Rousseau’s birth: an anthropology of labour value.
3 sessions
- 01
What is to be done? 1/3
What is to be done, and why does the answer require a theoretical detour through Rousseau and his conception of happiness?
- 02
What is to be done? 2/3
What does the passage from the state of nature to the civil state mean in Rousseau, and why does the Social Contract begin by rejecting force as a foundation of right?
- 03
What is to be done? 3/3
How can one respond to the question "what is to be done?" through a theoretical detour, and how does Rousseau, between the praise of labor and the praise of idleness, found property, happiness, and the beauty of landscape on praxis?