Cycle 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!- 33:39Putting one's whole being into what is foreign to oneself: the king is nothing without his crown, Harpagon nothing without his cashbox.
Alienation
Worked through in 22 videos · 25 passages.
Summary
Dominique Pagani starts from the Latin etymology alius, "the other": to alienate is to pass on to another what belongs to oneself. He locates the first definition of the concept in Rousseau's Emile: the one who "puts his whole being into what is foreign to him." He illustrates it with the satrap, with the king who is nothing without his crown, and with Harpagon without his cash box, and he points out that Marx takes up this definition12. In Rousseau, alienating part of one's natural freedom is also the sacrificial share that citizenship demands3. He traces how Feuerbach took the concept over from Hegel: man places his own attributes in God and judges himself wretched. According to him, however, Feuerbach replaces this alienation with another one, nature45. He also defines alienation as taking an object for a subject. As examples he gives the animism of the child who hits the "naughty" table, ancient anthropomorphism, and the "it" in "it is raining"6.
- 1On Marx6 Oct 2018 · 45:06
- 2The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!17 Dec 2024 · 33:39
- 3A for Antigone15 Dec 2014 · 8:47
- 4Marx on the Beach 1/21 Feb 2016 · 39:14
- 5Marx on the Beach 1/21 Feb 2016 · 44:42
- 6Clouscard and the problem of Socrates14 Oct 2022 · 1:48:40
Summary produced automatically from 26 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!
Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?- 38:03Feuerbach carried out the critique of religious alienation, a condition for all critique.
Cycle 11 · 18 May 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all- 2:03:40From alius, the other: in Feuerbach, man places in God his own attributes and judges himself wretched; in German, Entäußerung and Entfremdung.
Cycle 11 · 14 Oct 2022Clouscard and the problem of Socrates- 1:48:40Alienation consists in taking an object for a subject, as when parents strike the "naughty" table.
Series · 22 May 2021A chapter of Marx written by Hegel- 25:29Labor becomes dead, skill becomes narrow, the worker's consciousness is dulled, and his dependence on needs becomes blind.
Series · 18 Apr 2021#2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams- 51:50Transposing onto something other than oneself the finality of the craftsman: man alienates himself in nature by believing it peopled with subjects.
Series · 31 Mar 2021“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?- 27:32In Aristotle, the subject does not notice that he thinks of the object as a subject, as if the stone had a soul.
Series · 3 Dec 2020#1 Schubert and the master singers- 1:02:46The music of the machine, where one takes pleasure in dehumanizing oneself, refers to the alienation of the 1844 Manuscripts.
Talks · 24 Sept 2020Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought- 1:01:17Heidegger replaces Marxian Entfremdung with Heimatlosigkeit, the absence of ground and homeland, hence Heideggerian Marxism.
Cycle 6 · 19 Feb 2020#6.5 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism
Cycle 6 · 3 Dec 2019#6.2 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 23:43Taking an object for a subject is alienation.
Cycle 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018#5.2 bis Questions (Facebook Live)- 22:43In ancient thought, what is proper to man is attributed to nature, seen on the model of manufactured objects: this is anthropomorphism.
Cycle 5.1 · 24 Oct 2018#5.1 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought- 1:35:49Putting one's whole being into what is foreign to oneself; first defined by Rousseau, taken up again by Marx.
Talks · 6 Oct 2018On Marx- 45:06Rousseau's satrap, who puts his whole being into what is foreign to him, gives the first definition of alienation (alius, the other).
Talks · 12 Jun 2018In conversation with Bernard Friot (1 June 2018)- 45:18In Rousseau, putting one's whole being into what is foreign to us: one of the first definitions of alienation.
Talks · 20 May 2018Work and the right to work
Talks · 12 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)- 29:37In Marx, the social is the solidification and reification of relations between individuals, which oppresses them by its mass.
Cycle 4 · 15 Jan 2018#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)- 26:42Substantialism according to Hegel: a subject who does not know he is a subject attributes to the thing, to another, what is properly his own.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 3/3- 43:41First statement of the concept in Emile: he who places his whole being in what is foreign to him.
Series · 22 Dec 2014H for Hegel- 5:02Feuerbach frees man from religious alienation, but he transfers onto natural man the riches alienated in religious figuration.
Series · 15 Dec 2014A for Antigone- 8:47According to Rousseau, being a citizen requires alienating part of one's natural freedom: a sacrificial part.