Materialism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani insistently distinguishes materialism from naturalism: the artificial, a product of technè, is non-natural matter, and the material encompasses the axe as well as the tree12. To confine oneself to the natural part of man is to be only half a materialist, since a hammer is no less material than a flower3. He thus opposes a mechanistic materialism of nature to a dialectical materialism of history, in which man encounters nature. In his view, Marx rises to a higher materialism by bringing in the temporal dimension45. He traces a history of materialism that runs through Democritus, Plato and Montesquieu, the last of whom remains a naturalist. He takes up Lenin's judgement that Hegel is at once the most idealist and the most materialist of authors, and sees in it proof of a dialectical, not mechanistic, materialism6. Finally, he extends matter to Mozart's music, to Hegelian spirit and to the impression of immateriality, which presupposes a history and a social class.

1. 19 #20 Du SIGNAL au SIGNE • Einstein28 Apr 2021 · 39:55
2. 2La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le monde comme "ruse de la raison"22 Jul 2023 · 1:04:12
3. 3Entretien avec Dominique Pagani, praxis et psyché27 Mar 2023 · 13:15
4. 4#12 • Retour aux logiques du sujet2 Jul 2020 · 1:29:14
5. 5Musicosophie 7. Les Grecs, le mythe et la musique17 Dec 2020 · 38:01
6. 6"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 28:32

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