Burke

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Burke as the first of the counter-revolutionaries, the "original" of all the others, and from 2016 to 2021 he mostly returns to the phrase he attributes to him: "I have never met man," only Englishmen, Italians, nationals12. He reads in it a refusal of the universal and of man in general. In his view, this refusal already targets universalism3 and will later be taken up by the Nazis4. Regarding the Reflections on the Revolution in France, he notes that Burke sets the rights of Englishmen against the rights of man and speaks of the Revolution as a disease5. He places him at the start of the "destruction of reason" and links him to Joseph de Maistre, who in his view says the same thing in other words. He sees Burke as a source of Baudelaire's reactionary thought and notes that Arendt takes up his positions against the French Revolution. He also presents him as the classical liberal against whom Kant and the Hegelian national state are built.

1. 1Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 34:47
2. 2#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 16:50
3. 3Left-washing : Les wokes sont-ils les plus endormis ?17 Nov 2021 · 1:13:46
4. 49 #22 Science et/ou philosophie de l' "intelligence artificielle" - 2ème partie27 May 2021 · 38:44
5. 5Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 49:06

Summary produced automatically from 19 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.