Intersubjectivity

Summary

Dominique Pagani makes the relation between subjects the key to the subject-object relation: in the sessions on Hegel, truth is reached through a three-beat rhythm, I, the other, something1, and the intersubjective relation only becomes present through an object with a symbolic function2. Discussing Helen Keller, he argues that mathematical truth could only arise from subjects rubbing against one another, and that the relation to others presupposes the symbolic order. From 2018 on, he criticizes the present age, which defines objectivity through intersubjectivity: everyone can agree in error3. When negativity does not work on it, intersubjectivity is reduced to the primacy of subjects, and thus to individualism, and it does not reach social objectivity4. He then links it to a "societalism" in which one expresses oneself instead of expressing the concept of things5. In 2021, he sets against moods a real intersubjectivity that communicates about a determinate content, against the bubble in which capital encloses the individual6.

1. 1Hegel on the Beach 5/52 Feb 2016 · 1:01:47
2. 2Hegel on the Beach 5/52 Feb 2016 · 1:17:15
3. 3Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)12 Mar 2018 · 18:02
4. 4Tonight, we repoliticise (part 2)31 Mar 2018 · 6:13
5. 5The Phenomenology of Spirit2 Jul 2018 · 11:14
6. 6#17 Interpretation25 Mar 2021 · 1:22:29

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.