Revolutionary thought

Summary

Dominique Pagani places revolutionary thought in the history that the French Revolution opened. Since that event, it has alternated with counter-revolutionary thought, just as neoclassicism alternates with neoromanticism, though the two alternations do not match mechanically1. He calls the nineteenth century the century of revolutions2. For the 2018-2019 season, he makes it the theme of a term and studies it within a sequence he deliberately marks out from Rousseau to Lenin, by way of Kant, Hegel and Marx3. He treats it philosophically, as a totality, and not as a history of ideas4. He therefore does not set out to study each author separately. He aims to bring out the revolutionary continuum that runs through the whole sequence. In each author, he keeps only what is revolutionary, even where the author is unaware of it.

1. 1#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 26:34
2. 2#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 45:27
3. 3#5.0 Presentation of the 2018-2019 workshop15 Oct 2018 · 1:59
4. 4#5.0 Presentation of the 2018-2019 workshop15 Oct 2018 · 10:48

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.