Puritanism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees puritanism as an ideology that comes from Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture. According to him, it has dominated the world since Waterloo, alongside Anglo-Saxon leadership1. Its rigorism bears on social questions and above all on eros2. He refuses to speak of a neo-puritanism: for him it is the return of the old puritanism of the Churches, which makes everyone feel guilty3. He finds this matrix in contemporary morality: a certain feminism, punitive environmentalism, political correctness. These puritanisms take up religious discourse and serve to limit the consumption of the working classes45. Puritanism makes happiness suspect, and he describes it as allied with Islamist fundamentalism6. The Protestant obsession with the libido prevents one from going all the way with "know thyself"7. In music, he explains the rejection of Mozart by Gould's puritanism and by the difficulty Protestant cultures have in taking back someone who has sinned8. He also sees in the baroque performers' systematic staccato a fear that one might enjoy the note9.

1. 1De Platon à Proust - Lectures à vifs6 Jul 2026 · 50:11
2. 2Attention aux contresens !! Clouscard et l'idéologie du désir, en hommage au Précepteur14 Jan 2023 · 17:32
3. 3Attention aux contresens !! Clouscard et l'idéologie du désir, en hommage au Précepteur14 Jan 2023 · 29:38
4. 4L comme Liberté26 Dec 2014 · 9:23
5. 5Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir - Clouscard d'actualité (cf propos Ultra bellicistes de Macron)2 May 2024 · 16:31
6. 6Musicosophie 5. Bonheur contre pulsion de mort en musique11 Dec 2020 · 1:05:32
7. 7La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 58:20
8. 8Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021 · 41:38
9. 9Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021 · 1:23:21

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