Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens- 52:54Cited as an example of a prince with unlimited power.
Caligula
Appears in 9 videos · 9 passages.
Summary
Between 2016 and 2025, Dominique Pagani makes Caligula a figure of unlimited power. He mentions the hubris of the prince who appoints his horse consul1 and describes this absolute power as a power that drives one mad2. He often cites him with Nero among princes with unlimited power34. In a session on history, he uses his case to illustrate a regime in which only one person is free5. He also links him to the question of self-assertion: Caligula "wanted to assert himself" and destroys in order to feel his own existence6. He mentions him again with Nero in connection with the prince in a poem by Rimbaud7. In 2024, he qualifies this portrait: like Nero, Caligula was supposedly blackened because he enjoyed the favour of the people8.
- 1Hegel on the Beach 2/51 Feb 2016 · 40:55
- 2#2.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Mar 2016 · 1:14:57
- 3#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 3:43
- 4On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens6 Feb 2025 · 52:54
- 5Is history a subject?9 Mar 2017 · 1:14:35
- 6Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?17 Oct 2023 · 30:04
- 7“I is another”, or contradictory identity12 Dec 2023 · 1:29:27
- 8After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence11 Jul 2024 · 49:41
Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
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Who is this?Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41), also called Gaius or Caligula (), was the third Roman emperor, ruling from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41. He was the son of the Roman general Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Augustus's granddaughter, members of the first ruling family of the Roman Empire. He was born two years before Tiberius became emperor. Gaius accompanied his father, mother and siblings on campaign in Germania, at little more than four or five years old. […]
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Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
Cycle 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence- 49:41Like Nero, blackened for his popular favor.
Cycle 12 · 12 Dec 2023“I is another”, or contradictory identity- 1:29:27Evoked with Nero apropos of Rimbaud's prince.
Cycle 12 · 17 Oct 2023Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?- 30:04Destroys in order to feel his existence.
Cycle 10 · 23 Jun 2022#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions- 3:43Cited alongside Nero as a figure of absolute power.
Cycle 5.1 · 31 Dec 2018#5.3 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought- 1:21:50He too wanted to assert himself.
Talks · 9 Mar 2017Is history a subject?- 1:14:35Example of an empire where only one man is free.
Cycle 2 · 10 Mar 2016#2.4 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:14:57Figure of absolute power that drives one mad.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 2/5- 40:55Figure of the prince's hubris, who names his horse consul.