The books
Two books published by Delga.
Pagani sans détours
Initiation à la philosophie
Alexis Manago · Éditions Delga · 2019
For the first time, a collection of his courses—initially and mainly delivered orally—has been rigorously compiled by Alexis Manago. A one-of-a-kind instrument, the fruit of a well-tested teaching experience that carries forward the progressive and humanist approach of the people’s university of Georges Politzer, this manual takes the reader, step by step, into the history of thought and the study of its contemporary stakes.
Description and reviews
Féminité et communauté chez Hegel
Le rapport de l'esthétique au politique dans le Système
Dominique Pagani · Éditions Delga · 2011
In his preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel points out that “By the ease with which Spirit is satisfied, one can measure the extent of its loss.” He is thereby targeting Schelling’s absolute poematism, which trades the richness of the poem for the palette of a painter limited to two colors: “red for the historical scene and green for landscapes according to demand.” Reducing this binarity still further, our time (“Each philosophy merely sums up its time in thought”) censors red in favor of green alone; the color, very “völkisch,” of the “Teutonic Forests” that dominate Freiburg; a green unencumbered by history: that of political ecology, which is “fed up with Gaullo-communism” (D. Cohn-Bendit), or of the Medef, which says it wants “to be done with the C.N.R.” (D. Kessler). In writing Féminité et communauté chez Hegel, the author has endeavored, out of pure aesthetic concern, to restore to it a light touch of rose; the one that embalms us “in the cross of present suffering”: as one will have gathered, we are here in representation, at the theater. Hence the problem of knowledge appears there only in the light that completes every drama; beginning with the one that our Ulysses of Spirit calls “the aesthetic religion”: Recognition.
Description and reviewsPrefaces, afterwords and companion texts
Written for other authors' books, published by Delga and Materia Scritta.
- PrefaceÉditions Delga
Critique du néo-kantisme et raison dialectique chez Michel Clouscard
Preface to Simon Verdun’s master’s thesis, defended at the ENS in Paris (with highest honors)
- PrefaceÉditions Delga
L’écologisme est l’opium du people
Preface to Dominique Mazuet’s book “Des Veaux et des choses”
- PrefaceÉditions Delga
Pourquoi je suis communiste
Preface to Loïc Chaigneau’s book “Pourquoi je suis communiste. Essai sur l’objectivité du matérialisme dialectique et historique”
- PrefaceÉditions Delga · août 2013
Doit-on sauver le soldat Lordon ?
Preface to the new edition of Michel Clouscard’s “Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir” (Delga, 2013)
- TextÉditions Materia Scritta · 2012Text and PDF
Ministère du Matri-Patrimoine
Communication for the interministerial meeting of September 19, 2012, in “FABULA — Si la Corse m’était contée”
- PrefaceÉditions Materia ScrittaText and PDF
Mais je connais cette voix !
Preface to “Oxymoriques,” poems by Samira Fall (Gri-Gri series)
- PrefaceÉditions Materia Scritta · 2017Text and PDF
Négritude et négrologues
Preface to the reissue of Stanislas Spero Adotevi’s book: interview with Dominique Pagani conducted by Claire Cecchini (May 3, 2017)
- Back-cover textÉditions Materia Scritta
Avec Clouscard
Back-cover text for François de Negroni’s book
Articles and interviews
Texts published online, and conversations.
- Article
Introduction aux enjeux philosophiques
Introductory text for the workshops
- Interviewmai 2016
“Ce qui menace les sociétés, ce sont les hommes et femmes bénéficiaires de l’exploitation des autres”
Interview conducted by the blog Iségoria, published in part by Le Comptoir
- Article
D’un triangle de folie au cœur de la conscience moderne
- Interview29 mars 2017
Discussion between Aliocha Allard and Dominique Pagani
Cave art, childhood, jazz, desire…
About Dominique Pagani
Reviews of his books, and friends' writings.
- ReviewPress clipping
Review in “Les livres du mois” — Luca Pomioli
Le Monde diplomatique, août 2020, p. 25 · of “Pagani sans détours”
- Review
Review on the JRCF website — Victor
Site des JRCF · of “Pagani sans détours”
- Review
“Du côté d’Hölderlin” — Jean-Loup Thébaud
Les Lettres françaises, septembre 2011 (supplément à L’Humanité du 1er septembre 2011) · of “Féminité et communauté chez Hegel”
- FriendshipTexts and PDF
Christian Riochet
Texts on, among others, Michel Clouscard and Dominique Pagani
- TextText and PDF
De l’amitié
Manifesto of Class Complicity
- Links7 sites
Friends and allies
Publishers, a bookshop, a popular university and friendly sites that extend this work.