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Culture

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What Dominique Pagani says

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.

  1. 110#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 33:28
  2. 2Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir - Clouscard d'actualité (cf propos Ultra bellicistes de Macron)2 May 2024 · 58:29
  3. 310#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 1:54:35
  4. 4Le féminisme des privilégiés, censure puritaine de la féminité - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner6 Feb 2022 · 17:43
  5. 5Le féminisme des privilégiés, censure puritaine de la féminité - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner6 Feb 2022 · 19:58

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