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Season 13 · 2024–2025

Evil

from the essence of evil to naturalist ideology

Illness, misfortune, evil; “Evil, or the non-knowledge of oneself”; the essence of evil, the innocence of nature and the horror of naturalism; then imaginary identity, naturalist ideology, the State and the State apparatus.

11 sessionsFrom 2 September 2024 to 29 August 2025
  1. 01

    Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle

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

    2 Sept 20241 h 47

  2. 02

    Sickness, misfortune, evil

    How is evil, under the figures of misfortune, illness and suffering, linked to autumn and finitude, and how can it be overcome?

    20 Sept 20241 h 43

  3. 03

    The eternal return… of the death camps?

    If everything is determined and returns eternally, is philosophy, which asks the question "what must I do?", still possible, and can one still deliver a message against evil?

    13 Oct 20241 h 13

  4. 04

    Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self

    Why can the essence of evil be defined as lying, that is, as a privation of self-knowledge?

    2 Dec 20241 h 02

  5. 05

    The essence of evil - Innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!

    What is evil, if one starts from Rousseau's distinction between the state of nature and the civil state?

    17 Dec 20241 h 18

  6. 06

    On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens

    Why were the Khmer Rouge, communists, hostile to the Soviets, and what does their genocide reveal about the essence of evil?

    6 Feb 20251 h 11

  7. 07

    Imaginary identity

    Is identity a substance, or must it be converted into relation and function?

    15 May 20251 h 16

  8. 08

    Flagrante Delights

    What do perfumes, even the foul-smelling ones, teach us about sublimation, about modernity, and about man caught between the indeterminate and the determinate?

    27 May 20251 h 54

  9. 09

    Naturalist ideology / Answers to questions - Dominique Pagani

    What does money reveal about desire and self-knowledge, and why speak of a dialectic of matter rather than a dialectic of nature?

    25 Jul 20251 h 20

  10. 10

    The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society

    What do money, neopositivism, and bourgeois civil society have in common in the repression of the subject and self-knowledge?

    9 Aug 20251 h 04

  11. 11

    STATE AND STATE APPARATUS - The conflict between public and private

    Why must the State, understood as general will, be distinguished from the State apparatus that oppresses?

    29 Aug 202532 min

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