Bourgeoisie

Summary

Dominique Pagani approaches the bourgeoisie from both a historical and a dialectical angle. He defines it as the middle term between the proletariat and the aristocracy1. Under the absolute monarchy, it is a rising class on which the king relies against the nobility. He links this situation to the sale of offices, through which becoming replaces being2. The bourgeoisie then holds every power except political power, which it gains only after the French Revolution3. He connects this history to music: with Beethoven, the revolutionary bourgeoisie asserts itself, and in the nineteenth century a headlong rush leads to 19144. For the present day, he mentions a "bobo" bourgeoisie that likes to listen to the music of the Ancien Régime and shares an affinity with rock5. He also describes an "advanced bourgeoisie", the managers of the service sector, among whom working-class misery, once filtered, reappears as stress6.

1. 1Cynicism of the extreme centre or epistemic heroism? The dialectic of the middle20 May 2021 · 25:17
2. 2#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard17 Mar 2021 · 59:21
3. 3Cynicism of the extreme centre or epistemic heroism? The dialectic of the middle20 May 2021 · 51:21
4. 4#1 Schubert and the master singers3 Dec 2020 · 57:59
5. 5B for Bach16 Dec 2014 · 7:26
6. 6#0 Harnessed to confinitude26 Mar 2020 · 3:46

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