World

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani distinguishes the world from the Earth. The Earth is an astronomical notion, an object of the natural sciences, which exists without humanity and has no ethical value. The world, by contrast, is a human organisation: the whole set of relations between people, constituted by them, a plurality brought back to unity12. He calls it "unitotal", a unity in diversity, which he also sets apart from the infinity of the cosmos and from the empty unity of nirvana3. He concludes that it takes all sorts to make a world: rue Mouffetard, having become a ghetto for the rich, has ceased to be one4. The world is at once the most beautiful and the most ignoble of things, and it leans towards the best or the worst depending on the political management it is subject to56. Discussing Clouscard, he contrasts "a world", privileged and with access to happiness, with "the world", which exists when privilege extends to all of humanity7. For him, the clash of worlds is an end of the world: the era of singular destinies is over.

1. 1Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 1/28 Dec 2015 · 20:19
2. 2La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 10:16
3. 3La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 49:52
4. 4La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 56:15
5. 5La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 38:48
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le choc des mondes ?9 Jul 2023 · 7:36
7. 7La mondanité chez Clouscard ou les privilèges pour tous18 May 2023 · 18:07

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