Formalism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani distinguishes formalism from attention paid to form: it is an ideology of form, different from formal work, just as ecologism differs from ecology and scientism from science12. He illustrates it with Procrustes' bed: an abstract measure is imposed on reality, which is cut or stretched to force it to fit3. In his view, formalism always avoids content and precise historical determination, while invoking history in general4. He gives as an example the modern philosophy of desire, born of the liberal-libertarian counter-revolution: out of anti-Marxism, it deprives desire of its concrete and historical content56. In 2024, he describes the period as split between two failings: a formalism that retains only the structure of reality, and an empiricism drowned in statistics7.

1. 1#1.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 58:30
2. 2Clouscard par vous-même - Réponse à vos questions28 Feb 2024 · 31:53
3. 3P comme Peuple30 Dec 2014 · 11:11
4. 4La Musique de l'Histoire26 Apr 2015 · 1:48:45
5. 5D comme Désir17 Dec 2014 · 8:51
6. 6La PHILO avec PAGANI : D comme DÉSIR29 May 2023 · 9:37
7. 7Clouscard par vous-même - Réponse à vos questions28 Feb 2024 · 20:17

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