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Dialectic

dialectique

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Dominique Pagani holds that dialectics is always ternary: a thesis, an antithesis and a middle term that dismisses both1. Cartesian binary thinking does not get there. Dialectics is neither a mixture nor a compromise: it keeps both opposites and goes beyond them in a movement, like tributaries in a river2. He stresses internal contradiction, which sets the subject against itself, and the back-and-forth movement it produces3. He distinguishes two senses of the word: a path towards being in Plato, or a reality that is itself dialectical in Heraclitus, Hegel and Marx4. He also links it to Rousseau, a dialectician who never uses the word, and to Clouscard. He criticises Deleuze and Althusser for having set it aside5. On nature, his position varies: he first presents the dialectics of nature as a classic topic, then states that nature is not dialectical, unlike being, matter and history.

  1. 1What is to be done? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 46:08
  2. 2Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle2 Sept 2024 · 33:08
  3. 3#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge7 Apr 2022 · 1:02:32
  4. 4Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics20 May 2022 · 1:26:33
  5. 5Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3)2 Aug 2016 · 17:04

Summary produced automatically from 134 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Cycle 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle
  1. 19:40Rousseau is an immense dialectician, even though the word never appears in his work: he holds reason and heart together.
  2. 33:08Dialectic is neither a mixture nor a compromise: it keeps both opposites and sublates them in a movement, like tributaries in the river.
  3. 37:56The great systems are moments of truth: one does not discard them, one preserves them.
Talks · 27 Mar 2023Praxis and psyche
  1. 3:56Fruitful contradiction, not a paralyzing one; Rousseau is a dialectician without using the word.
  2. 16:04To think the passage, which contains both terms, is dialectical.
  3. 38:07Dialectic lies beyond the opposition between materialism and idealism.
Cycle 11 · 23 Nov 2022The aporias of anthropology
  1. 14:15To be dialectical is to conjoin the two opposites at the cost of a displacement: man is the movement by which the animal becomes human.
  2. 1:13:24The anthropological and the zoological are the poles of a dialectic, like those of a magnet, between which a cursor moves ceaselessly.
Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude
  1. 17:31One must hold at least two things together: contradiction and movement, and movement because of contradiction.
  2. 23:46In its rational aspect, it includes within the positive understanding of the existing order the recognition of its fatal negation; it is essentially critical and revolutionary.
Series · 10 Sept 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)
  1. 9:57Holding together opposed things at the same time; like the couple of forces of the door handle, two forces of opposite direction produce movement.
  2. 32:35In Plato, it is the path toward being; in Heraclitus, being itself is dialectical and contradiction is the motor of becoming.
  3. 1:21:42Bringing image and concept together so that their contradiction becomes the motor of the movement that drives things forward.
Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3)
  1. 17:04The hatred of the dialectic, from Deleuze to Althusser, is the common point of the post-moderns and goes together with the impotence of political thought.
  2. 18:49To think dialectically is to identify at the same time as one differentiates and to sustain a thought that develops contradictorily; only Hegel and Marx achieved this.
Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2)
  1. 13:36The connivance of accord and discord, Heraclitean in character, is the first expression of the dialectic, long since become a cliché.
  2. 21:54Isomorphism between the unfolding of the French Revolution and the structure of the Hegelian dialectic.
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 1/3
  1. 20:55There is dialectic as soon as there is a syllogism: two extremes and a middle term that sublates them.
  2. 46:08Dialectic is always ternary: a thesis, an antithesis and a middle term that turns both away.
  3. 49:45The dialectical standpoint integrates the two previous ones; it is immanent to the very emergence of philosophy.
Series · 9 Jan 2015Z for Zero
  1. 9:56Dialectical logic, founded on contradiction and negation, is opposed to the logic of identity; a dialectic of the negativity of the positive and the positivity of the negative.
Series · 29 Dec 2014O for Opposition
  1. 9:29There is a dialectic immanent to every being and to things: the book falls, the table resists, hence a precarious equilibrium.
  2. 14:30A manner both tragic and dialectical of suppressing while preserving, keeping the best of the other in order to remain the same.
Series · 25 Dec 2014K for Karl
  1. 4:20Lordon was formed when anti-dialectical currents prevailed; Deleuze speaks of "infamous dialectic."
  2. 9:06To annul Marx is to enucleate him from dialectic, which lies at his heart, especially in his relation to Hegel.

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