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Dominique Pagani makes history what constitutes man: there is not man first and then history1. With Rousseau, he holds that history is part of our inmost being and is not grafted onto an innate nature2. It begins with the negation of nature: the flaked flint, cooking, burial3. He contrasts heritage, a technical inheritance passed on through learning, with biological heredity4. Nature is cyclical, and what repeats itself does not belong to history. He goes as far as an ontological thesis: history precedes nature, since one must have left nature in order to name it5. He criticizes the human sciences for concealing this dimension and for turning history into nature, and he sees its restoration as the task of a Marxist. He links the end of history in Hegel to the end of prehistory in Marx and sees no contradiction between the two. He also connects history with desire, music and aesthetics.

  1. 1#2.2 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?15 Feb 2016 · 1:13:55
  2. 2#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 29:29
  3. 3IL NE SUFFIT PAS DE NAÎTRE HOMME, POUR ÊTRE HOMME • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani19 Jul 2021 · 13:39
  4. 4"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 25:00
  5. 5Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 1:22:03

Summary produced automatically from 41 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Series · 5 Jul 2018Being and Code
  1. 26:54The human sciences and anthropology evacuate history; restoring it is the task of a marxist.
  2. 1:22:03History precedes nature: one must have left nature in order to name it; this is an ontological thesis.
Talks · 9 Mar 2017Is History a subject?
  1. 10:20History is both matter and subject: past events and the act of speaking of them.
  2. 14:42History begins when the historical discipline becomes a form of writing: object and discipline fuse.
  3. 25:32What repeats itself is not of the order of history; natural evolution is not history.
Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)
  1. 25:13The true is the rupture that negatively condenses the whole past and totalizes it by projecting itself toward the future.
  2. 29:22Hegel distinguishes original history, reflective and critical history, and philosophical history; the latter does not render the other two obsolete.
Talks · 26 Apr 2015The Music of History
  1. 35:33To know what really happened, one must listen to musicians: music expresses the intimacy of what peoples have lived through.
  2. 1:32:35The sense of rhythm is decided at the historical level: personal micro-history combined with macro-history.
Series · 17 Dec 2014D for Desire
  1. 4:39Second source of desire: as it develops and grows more complex, without any judgment of progress, it supplies its matter to desire.
  2. 6:11The historical content of desire is what today's intellectuals misunderstand most.
Series · 20 Sept 2014#2 Rousseau, a world that begins
  1. 24:14Marx opens the continent history, where realities irreducible to the physico-chemical appear, such as the prohibition of incest.
  2. 29:29Rousseau shows that history is constitutive of our intimate being and not grafted onto an innate nature.
  3. 46:02True history is silent and slow; restoring it is today a revolutionary act.

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