Family

Summary

Dominique Pagani approaches the family through Hegel. He defines it as a natural and immediate ethical community, founded on the blood tie. He contrasts it with the political community, which is conscious: the penates stand against the universal spirit1. Yet the family is not external to the city: it is its element, its medium2. It is the oldest community. Woman presides over it, and in Hegel it belongs to the divine and underground world3. In his commentary on Antigone, he makes it the element of the private as opposed to the public4. He draws a division from this: the living citizen belongs to the city, while his corpse and burial fall to the family5. The aim of the family is the singular. He specifies that children do not belong to their parents: it is the collectivity that delegates this power to the parents6. Finally, he sees the family as the first solidarity of proximity, and he finds in it the archaic origin of the mafias7.

1. 1Hegel on the Beach 2/51 Feb 2016 · 1:48:31
2. 2#10.1 The eternal irony of the community22 Sept 2021 · 36:46
3. 3#10.2 Dialectics of identity and difference6 Oct 2021 · 10:16
4. 4#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…24 Nov 2021 · 40:00
5. 5#10.2 Dialectics of identity and difference6 Oct 2021 · 25:25
6. 6#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…24 Nov 2021 · 1:06:44
7. 7#10.1 The eternal irony of the community22 Sept 2021 · 42:16

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