Inheritance

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani defines inheritance by contrasting it with heredity. Heredity belongs to the genes: it is undeniable and is received without effort. Inheritance is what is passed on, the "code", like the language a mother passes on to her child12. It requires a work of assimilation3 and gathers what has been acquired through millennia of work and patience. In his view, ideology confuses the two because they look alike4. He takes the example of femininity, which he presents as a historical inheritance thousands of years old rather than a biological given5. He states that culture, history and spirit are not external to man, since man is made of what is passed on, and he criticises Feuerbach for neglecting this6. In 2014, speaking about music, he says that young people, confined in a sonic ghetto, are cut off from the inheritance of popular and art music. He proposes giving them back their classical and jazz inheritance in order to rebuild an enriched popular music7.

1. 1#7 Réponses aux questions (suite)3 Dec 2020 · 53:01
2. 2IL NE SUFFIT PAS DE NAÎTRE HOMME, POUR ÊTRE HOMME • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani19 Jul 2021 · 12:57
3. 3La panzer-philosophie contre le cogito : néo-fascisme ou idéologie de la nature. Heidegger/Descartes5 Mar 2022 · 30:22
4. 410#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 31:05
5. 5La panzer-philosophie contre le cogito : néo-fascisme ou idéologie de la nature. Heidegger/Descartes5 Mar 2022 · 28:05
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard ou les privilèges pour tous18 May 2023 · 2:07:43
7. 7B comme Bach16 Dec 2014 · 10:33

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