Cycle 11 · 19 Oct 2022“Speech is the best and the worst of things” (Aesop)- 20:48Third circle, that is, history: with man, spirit resurrects, as on Easter Sunday after the speculative Good Friday.
Spirit
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Summary
Dominique Pagani understands spirit mainly in the Hegelian sense. He takes up the distinction between subjective spirit, which belongs to psychology, objective spirit, realized in institutions, and absolute spirit, which includes art, religion and philosophy1. He insists that spirit is neither smoke nor vapour: it is the tool, law, history in its economic, artistic and warlike reality, a historical matter that stands opposed to natural matter23. Spirit does not exist without nature, but only by breaking away from it and opposing it4. He also defines it as the collective, "an I that is a we", a community conscious of its unity that presupposes the freedom of its members56. Starting from the pneuma and from Christ's words about the wind, he links spirit to breath and to freedom. Finally, he distinguishes Voltaire's ingenious wit from Hegelian spirit, a reconciliation of the two that Jacques D'Hondt celebrates.
- 1Hegel on the Beach 4/52 Feb 2016 · 2:03:00
- 2The world before, the world after (part 1)16 Jan 2021 · 26:21
- 3A chapter of Marx written by Hegel22 May 2021 · 14:26
- 4#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…24 Nov 2021 · 19:53
- 5#6 Harnessed to confinitude26 Apr 2020 · 1:50:48
- 6#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…24 Nov 2021 · 1:01:26
Summary produced automatically from 21 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 11 · 19 Oct 2022“Speech is the best and the worst of things” (Aesop)
Series · 6 Feb 2022The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner- 32:11Having the right to be feminine without being obliged to: this is what distinguishes, in Hegelian terms, spirit from nature.
Cycle 10 · 23 Dec 2021#10.7 “Postmodern” eco-petty-Nazism: Plato's Gorgias
Cycle 10 · 24 Nov 2021#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…
Series · 22 May 2021A chapter of Marx written by Hegel
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 1)- 19:57In Hegel, spirit means history: it breaks with the old world and works at its own transformation, as one speaks of the labor of childbirth.
- 26:21Spirit is not a vapor, but history in all its concreteness, economic, artistic, and military; it disintegrates the edifice of its previous world fragment by fragment.
Cycle 9.1 · 24 Dec 2020#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia…- 1:25:56Christ compares the spirit to the wind, whose origin and destination are unknown: the spirit is linked to freedom.
Cycle 8 · 30 Jul 2020#16 Return to the logics of the subject
Cycle 8 · 11 Jun 2020#10 Return to the logics of the subject- 43:40The spirit is like the breath that goes where it wills: rarely has spirit been brought so close to freedom; Atem, Atman.
Cycle 7 · 26 Apr 2020#6 Harnessed to confinitude- 1:50:48Spirit is the collective: an I that is a we, and a we that is an I.
Cycle 4 · 16 May 2018#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:16:56Subjective, objective, absolute spirit; art belongs to absolute spirit, first before religion and philosophy.
Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)- 41:00Two senses of esprit: Voltaire's ingenious reason and spirit in the Hegelian sense; D'Hondt celebrates their reconciliation.
Cycle 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:13:48In Hegel, spirit is not smoke but the tool, institutions, law: the patience and labor of history.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 4/5- 2:03:00Subjective spirit belongs to psychology; objective spirit has realized itself in institutions; absolute spirit comprises art, religion, and philosophy.
Series · 23 Dec 2014I for Island- 6:09Pneuma, breath, is the origin of spirit; the leaves of the poplar metaphorize the instability of words.