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Dominique Pagani distinguishes culture in the anthropological sense, the one each person inherits through their origins, from being cultivated. Being cultivated, in his view, means leaving one's own culture as well as one's lack of culture in order to take an interest in the cultures of others1, whether they are distant in space or in time2. He gives this definition in 2021 and again in 2024. He refuses to treat culture as something external: the traditionalist sees it as a corruption, the pleasure-seeker as a mere means, whereas for him mind, reason and culture go together3. In a session devoted to feminism, in which he cites Molière, Clouscard and Wagner, he applies this idea to the difference between the sexes: there are men and women in culture and in history, and the human female must have had a behaviour called feminine4. Even the alternative "boy or girl" already bears the mark of culture and history, as the French expression "garçon manqué" ("tomboy", literally a "failed boy") shows5.
Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Season 12 · 2 May 2024Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: Clouscard, as relevant as ever
Series · 6 Feb 2022The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner
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