State

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani starts from a contradiction within the notion of the state: it refers both to what oppresses my freedom and to what extends it, and moving from one meaning to the other without warning amounts to "fishing in troubled waters"12. His recurring example is the state forest, which belongs to everyone, to which he adds the hospital and the school: there the state is the general will in Rousseau's sense, the common interest and the Republic3. From 2015 on, he puts this as the distinction between the state and the state apparatus. In his view, the state apparatus has never been so powerful and serves the private sphere, which is the negation of the state, so that "we lack state"45. In Hegel, he sees the state as the very principle of the family, and as responsible for taming the economy. From this he draws a primacy of the nation-state, the only real political institution, without nationalism6. He also argues that capitalism, and later Nazism, are driven by hatred of the state.

1. 1Tout est permis mais rien n'est possible - Michel Clouscard - 229 Jan 2012 · 21:28
2. 2ÉTAT ET APPAREIL D'ÉTAT - Le conflit du public et du privé29 Aug 2025 · 9:09
3. 3Guerre, néo-fascisme : le libéralisme-libertaire3 Mar 2023 · 40:45
4. 4#15 • Retour aux logiques du sujet23 Jul 2020 · 1:07:30
5. 5[ENTRETIEN] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard et la trahison de mai 687 Feb 2025 · 36:44
6. 6Hegel et les gilets jaunes (1ère partie)13 Feb 2019 · 29:59

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