Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism- 49:50City LightsHe tells the sequence of the red flag picked up behind a truck: the character is mistaken for a communist and arrested.
Chaplin
Appears in 9 videos · 10 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani uses Chaplin to explain Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: reading this book means watching Charlie without him knowing it, while keeping the sequences in mind1. Consciousness in it is like Charlie Chaplin, unaware of the roof tiles about to fall on him2. He often comes back to Modern Times. He sees in it the machine going haywire and links the film to the manufactory described by Hegel, which already foreshadows it3. He also brings up the red flag scene: the character picks up a flag that has fallen from a truck, is taken for a communist and is arrested. He sees in it a sign of the period's attraction to Marxism4. In 2026, however, he places this sequence in City Lights5. About Limelight, he singles out the clown who hides his suffering from the audience6. Finally, he counts Chaplin among the Americans he holds in reverence, among the things he loves about the United States, and among the true elite78.
- 1Hegel on the Beach 2/51 Feb 2016 · 2:05:34
- 2Hegel on the Beach 2/51 Feb 2016 · 2:12:06
- 3A chapter of Marx written by Hegel22 May 2021 · 24:25
- 4#7 Harnessed to confinitude5 May 2020 · 9:57
- 5The return of fascism4 Feb 2026 · 49:50
- 6#9 Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata15 Jan 2021 · 1:18:45
- 7#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)24 Mar 2022 · 7:09
- 8After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence11 Jul 2024 · 50:39
Summary produced automatically from 10 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, singer, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977. […]
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Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 2/5
Cycle 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence- 50:39Cited among the true elite.
Cycle 11 · 9 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?- 1:41:59Among what he likes about the United States.
Cycle 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)- 7:09Mentioned among the Americans he reveres.
Series · 22 May 2021A chapter of Marx written by Hegel- 24:25Modern TimesThe manufacture described by Hegel already announces Modern Times.
Series · 15 Jan 2021#9 Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata- 1:18:45LimelightThe clown who hides his suffering before the public.
Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude- 9:57Modern TimesThe scene with the red flag testifies to the era's attraction to Marxism.
Cycle 6 · 8 Jan 2020#6.3 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 1:46:23The machine that malfunctions in Modern Times.