At the Tropiques bookshop
Dominique Pagani’s talks at the Tropiques bookshop: book launches, tributes to Domenico Losurdo and Jacques D’Hondt, Hegel and the yellow vests, Adotevi…
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Pagani without detours
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"?
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Tribute to Domenico Losurdo
Why is Hegel's logic, long treated as a "dead dog," a logic of revolutionary political discourse that allows a critique of contemporary apoliticism?
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Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought
What relation unites Arendt's conception of Nazism and totalitarianism with Heidegger's conception of thought, and how has this relation served to exonerate Heidegger and Schmitt?
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Hegel and the yellow vests (Part 1)
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?
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Calves and Things, preface by Dominique Pagani
What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?
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Calves and Things (2): Ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?
Why is ecologism a class ideology of capitalism, and what does the reference to Foucault's Les Mots et les choses in the title of the book Les Veaux et les choses mean?
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Calves and Things (3): The dictatorship of the bobotariat
Is political ecology anything other than the aesthetic surface of dominant liberal ideology?
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Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)
Why does Stanislas Spero Adotevi criticize négritude, and why must the Black question be thought in terms of class and universality rather than race?
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Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2)
What was the target of the critique of négritude in "Négritude et négrologues"? How did Césaire and Senghor receive the book?
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Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)
What does Stanislas Adotevi show in Négritude et négrologues, and why does his critique of the essentialism of negritude disturb even more today?
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Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)
Why and how could Jacques D'Hondt call himself a Hegelian without adopting the manifest content of Hegelianism?
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Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2)
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?
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Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3)
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?
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The Phenomenology of Spirit
Why must we reread today Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a philosophy of the true, opposed to the philosophy of sense?
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The brass band's journey - by Dominique Memmi
What does Le voyage de la fanfare show, a novel about a brass band from Ajaccio invited in 1978 by Bokassa to the Central African Republic, about ordinary Corsican people and their encounter with Africa?
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Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 1
Why must the political today be repoliticized, against the reduction of objectivity to intersubjectivity?
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Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 2
Why must we "repoliticize the political," and what does the debate between Hegel, Marx and Sartre on totality and totalization say?