Religious

religieux

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Dominique Pagani starts from the etymology religare: religion is first of all what binds, and this is where language gets its sacred character1. He links the sacred to contemplation, where the self and the true are found without others, since one has found and is no longer searching2. He follows the young Hegel's critique of religion, which judges it from a political angle: it teaches the people what despotism wants to hear3. He also takes up the Marxian formula of the inverted consciousness of an inverted world, which is both a general theory and a consolation for a real misery4. For him, calling religion an opium means acknowledging its strength: it can only be removed by replacing it with something just as substantial5 6. He observes that the need for the religious shifts. After the Enlightenment, poetry takes over. Once the Church is discredited, the sacred passes into Freemasonry and the Rosicrucians7. Finally, he contrasts the formal rite of the Grail, which faith has left, with Bach's immediate faith8.

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Cycle 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject

3:37The Grail rite is no more than a formal ceremony from which faith has fled, in contrast to Bach's immediate, substantial faith.
1:21:10With the Church discredited, the need for the sacred keeps its reasons for being and passes into freemasonry and the Rosicrucians.

Talks · 23 Mar 2024Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

35:47To say that religion is the opium of the people is to say that it is very powerful; to remove it a substantial substitute is needed.

Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?

36:51If religion is an opium, it is a force: to abolish it, it must be replaced by something equally powerful.
1:05:12Religion is the inverted consciousness of an inverted world, produced by the state and society, a general theory and a motive of consolation for a real misery.

Cycle 8 · 17 Jul 2020#14 Return to the logics of the subject

33:55In the young Hegel, a political critique of religion: it teaches the people what despotism wants to hear.

Cycle 5.2 · 26 Mar 2019#5.5 Nature or landscape?

1:08:07Poetry takes over from the religious, liquidated by the Enlightenment; Rousseau's natural religion binds men to one another.

Cycle 5.1 · 6 Dec 2018#5.2 ter Questions, following workshop #5.2 (Facebook Live)

25:07The self and the true without the others: the sacred, contemplation; one has found, one is no longer searching.

Cycle 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

40:27Religare: religion is first of all what binds together, hence the sacred character of language.