Cycle 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?- 2:26:44It is in the blackest depth of winter and night that the pledge of hope is delivered: one must pass through the negative.
Negative
Worked through in 14 videos · 18 passages.
Summary
Dominique Pagani links the negative first of all to the preface of Hegel's Phenomenology. There, the "tremendous power of the negative" is the energy of thought that isolates what is real only in its connection1. Spirit wins its truth by looking the negative in the face and tarrying with it, and this tarrying converts it into being23. He sees negativity as Hegel's greatest discovery, for example in the now that maintains itself by suppressing the particular nows4. From this he draws a "positivity of the negative": in the Prometheus myth, man's superiority comes from a lack5, just as surplus value comes from unpaid labour. He also applies the negation of the negation to politics, with the return of the social in the yellow vests movement6. Finally, he finds the passage through the negative in the cross, in music that negates death without ignoring it, and in the Grail quest7.
- 1Hegel on the Beach 3/52 Feb 2016 · 1:12:05
- 2#11 Return to the logics of the subject21 Jun 2020 · 52:11
- 3Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative29 Jun 2023 · 36:05
- 4Hegel on the Beach 3/52 Feb 2016 · 1:20:56
- 5Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative29 Jun 2023 · 1:01:15
- 6Hegel and the yellow vests (part 1)13 Feb 2019 · 21:57
- 7The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?1 Apr 2024 · 2:26:44
Summary produced automatically from 18 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?
Cycle 11 · 29 Jun 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative- 25:13Title of the session: the positivity of the negative; nothingness, the negative, the minus.
- 36:05Spirit looks the negative in the face and dwells with it; this dwelling is the magical power that converts it into being.
- 1:01:15In the myth of Prometheus, man's superiority stems from a minus, not a plus.
Series · 5 Mar 2022Panzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature (Heidegger, Descartes)- 32:05One must pass through the negative to know joys that the immortals do not know; he prefers happiness, a human concept, to beatitude, a theological concept.
Cycle 10 · 10 Feb 2022#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?- 49:56What Greek serenity lacks is the deepening of the negative, of evil and suffering, later recognized in the cross.
Cycle 9.2 · 12 May 2021#9.21 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence”- 1:42:25Surplus value comes from a minus, unpaid labor; man's superiority comes from his destitution in the myth of Prometheus.
Series · 9 Feb 2021#15 Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music- 1:38:19Negative desire not to remain facing finitude; music and philosophy negate death without ignoring it: this is the Aufhebung.
Cycle 8 · 21 Jun 2020#11 Return to the logics of the subject- 52:11Thought negates totality in order to divide it: this is death. Spirit conquers its truth by looking the negative in the face and maintaining itself in absolute laceration.
Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude- 24:06The dialectic scandalizes the ruling classes because it sees in existing things their necessary negation and destruction.
Talks · 13 Feb 2019Hegel and the yellow vests (part 1)- 21:57The self-negation of the societal still asserts itself by negating itself; it remains to be seen whether the negation of the negative will produce something positive.
- 1:07:25The return of the social as a first negation, awaiting the second moment of negation which will produce something positive.
Cycle 4 · 14 Jun 2018#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:20:09The dream in Aurélia is the exact antisymmetric of the Senlis scene: enlarged building, tripled light, springtime, adult women, narrator as a child.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:45:51The sun must become black: Nietzsche casts doubt on the value of the true, Freud discovers a will to non-knowledge.
Series · 2 Aug 2016With Clouscard- 30:04Hegel makes it concrete: it suffices to place before someone everything they have consumed in their life.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 3/5
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 1/5- 1:17:59That the accidental, separated from its surroundings, obtains its own separate existence—that is the prodigious power of the negative; spirit finds itself in absolute tearing apart.