Unhappy consciousness

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes the concept of the unhappy consciousness from Hegel and considers it relevant for thinking about modernity: when the religious answer no longer precedes the questions, the disappearance of transcendence produces a collective trauma1. He connects it to the split between presence and truth, which Hegel links to the logic of essence2. He places it in history: it appears when production recedes, in the passage from the city to the empire with the moral schools, then from Descartes to Pascal3, or under the Restoration, after the revolution failed4. The present crisis produces one that brings back the old religious substratum5. He describes it as a consciousness that denounces the disorder of the world without seeing that it contributes to it, that recognises itself nowhere and seeks escape6. He applies it to Romanticism withdrawn from politics, to the petty bourgeois and to the ZAD spirit7. He also sees in it a deepening, a night whose end is in sight8.

1. 1Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 11:11
2. 2#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:54:39
3. 39 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 56:59
4. 4Staël (Mme de )26 May 2019 · 1:36:44
5. 5Dominique Pagani : « Ce qui menace les sociétés, ce sont les hommes et femmes bénéficiaires de l’exploitation des autres »12 Mar 2019 · 2:44:12
6. 6Saint Jean30 Jun 2019 · 1:19:06
7. 7Mon éco-cabane dans la ZAD : autonomie ou aliénation ? • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani30 Apr 2021 · 23:14
8. 8Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 1:26:59

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