Series · 23 May 2022Introduction to the podcast- 2:32Rich music is being taken away from young people because they would no longer tolerate the world they are given; for this stake, the word "political" is almost too weak.
Politics
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Summary
Dominique Pagani rejects the idea that "everything is political": in his view, a large part of existence escapes political reading, and this is how Clouscard should be read1. The relation between philosophy and politics nonetheless engages the very essence of philosophy. In Plato, philosophy is born of a political failure, the death of Socrates, and it culminates in the Republic and the Laws2. Politics thus frames it at both ends: the trauma at the origin, the descent back into the cave at the end3. Following Marx, he makes the political the real universal and the locus of all efficacy. This political exists today in the form of the nation-state, and the social or the societal must not replace it45. He locates its most difficult action in self-limitation: letting develop what pursues ends other than its own6. Finally, he notes with Aristotle that politics divides men whereas mathematics unites them.
- 1At the bistro (part 1)18 Jun 2016 · 22:44
- 2#5.2 ter Questions, following workshop #5.2 (Facebook Live)6 Dec 2018 · 7:57
- 3#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 12:23
- 4Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)12 Mar 2018 · 54:44
- 5Tonight, we repoliticise (part 2)31 Mar 2018 · 9:48
- 6Tonight, we repoliticise (part 2)31 Mar 2018 · 16:09
Summary produced automatically from 18 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Series · 23 May 2022Introduction to the podcast
Cycle 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)- 12:01Mathematics, rationality, the universal unite men; politics divides them, and the greatest minds are not immune to ideological blindness.
Talks · 6 Oct 2020Calves and Things (3): the dictatorship of the bobotariat- 9:13Environmental questions were not in the field of politics, for lack of an adversary; ecology enters it to occlude the social question.
Series · 10 Sept 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)- 2:04:43In present-day capitalism, management is the very political dimension of the economic; the Marxist gains access to the political by unveiling the economy behind economism.
Cycle 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018#5.2 ter Questions, following workshop #5.2 (Facebook Live)
Cycle 4 · 14 Jun 2018#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)
Talks · 31 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise (part 2)- 9:48The political is the site of all efficacy; it is real today in the form of the nation-state and must not be replaced by the social or the societal.
- 16:09The most difficult action of the political is its self-limitation: letting develop, within the milieu it pacifies, what does not have its objectives as its own.
Talks · 12 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 7:40The philosophy-politics relation engages the very essence of philosophy, without "everything being political."
- 21:50Plato turns away from politics because of the scandal of Socrates's death, and not because something would exist better than politics.
- 1:29:50The limit to be set is political (distributing wealth) and not material.
Talks · 18 Jun 2016At the bistro (part 1)- 22:44To understand Clouscard properly is to admit that a large part of existence escapes political reading; politicizing everything is a mistake.