Worldliness in Clouscard
and the dialectics of hesitation and decision
The subject in Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire, Clouscard and the problem of Socrates, the dialectics of hesitation and decision (Siegfried and Perceval), then the cycle “Worldliness in Clouscard”, from April to September 2023.
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And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire
How can philosophy, which hesitates between the rigor of mathematics and the language of poetry, take the subject into account?
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Clouscard and the problem of Socrates
How, starting from ordinary ideological language, do we arrive at the necessity of the concept?
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"Speech is the best and the worst of things" (Aesop)
In what sense is speech "the best and the worst of things," and how does this contradiction reappear in Hegel's Greater Logic and in the relation between philosophy and history?
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Dialectics of hesitation and decision
Why is hesitation, as opposed to decision, at the very origin of philosophy, and how does it touch on the problem of language?
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THE APORIAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Can we fix a threshold where one ceases to be animal and becomes man, or must man be thought as the very movement of this passage?
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Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval
How do Perceval, Parsifal and Siegfried figure hesitation, fascinated by sight or by hearing, and the passage to decision?
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Beware of misreadings!! Clouscard and the ideology of desire, in homage to Le Précepteur
Does Clouscard put desire itself on trial, or the ideology of desire?
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Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war
Between roots and migration, between the measure of the inhabited place and the pull of the infinite, how does man find his place, while war looms?
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War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism
What should be understood by liberal-libertarianism, and how does the confusion between the State and the State apparatus prepare the return of fascism and war?
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A SPRINGTIME OF THE PEOPLES?
Does poetic speech proceed from the immediate intuition of genius or from a rigor that proceeds by mediations?
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Worldliness in Clouscard, or "The dominant ideology"
What does the world mean, and worldliness in Clouscard's sense, between the happiness of being in the world and the lie of the world that keeps the dominated under the ideology of the dominant?
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Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all
Why 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?
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Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative
How does the positivity of the negative, read in a poem by Aragon and in the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, shed light on Clouscard's concept of worldliness and the critique of neopositivism?
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Worldliness in Clouscard - The clash of worlds?
How can we think the ambivalence of the world, between enjoyment and negativity, when two worlds collide, as in the colonial encounter between Africa and the school of the white men?
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Worldliness in Clouscard - The world as "cunning of reason"
How can reason, which has essence but not existence, produce a world, and why must it resort to cunning for this?
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NIGER SPECIAL: Should we "blacken the corpses"?
What does the coup in Niger reveal about the situation in the Sahel and about the way Western powers wage their wars while managing public opinion?
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Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom??
What is the object of human desire in our modernity, and who is its subject?