Season 13 · 29 Aug 2025State and state apparatus: the conflict between public and private- 10:57a statesman, anticommunist, who said that if citizens knew what the leaders talk about among themselves, they would come and hang them.
Churchill
Appears in 8 videos · 8 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani mainly brings up Churchill in connection with the relationship between power and truth. On several occasions he attributes to him the idea that if the people knew what their rulers are preparing, or what they say among themselves, they would come and hang them: power does not tell the truth about what it does12. In the sessions devoted to Ukraine, he also attributes to him, though without being certain, the saying that the first casualty of war is truth3. His political judgment is nuanced. He sets him apart from Chamberlain because he fought against Hitler, and he gives him credit for having overturned British interwar policy45. Yet he also presents him as a fierce anticommunist who was behind the cordon sanitaire and the Cold War6. Lastly, he recalls that Churchill made his name in the Boer War, where concentration camps appeared.
- 1The world before, the world after (part 2)16 Jan 2021 · 7:15
- 2State and state apparatus: the conflict between public and private29 Aug 2025 · 10:57
- 3#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war24 Feb 2022 · 42:40
- 4A balance in nature?31 Mar 2021 · 13:04
- 5Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: Clouscard, as relevant as ever2 May 2024 · 10:13
- 6For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?24 Jun 2024 · 2:07:35
Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
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Who is this?Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. […]
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Season 13 · 29 Aug 2025State and state apparatus: the conflict between public and private
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 2)- 7:15According to him, if peoples knew what those in power were preparing, they would hang them: power does not tell the truth about what it does.
Season 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?- 2:07:35A fierce anticommunist, at the origin of the cordon sanitaire and the Cold War.
Season 12 · 2 May 2024Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: Clouscard, as relevant as ever- 10:13A fierce anticommunist, he has the merit of having reversed British policy of the interwar period.
Season 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)- 1:59Possible author of the phrase about truth, the first casualty of war.
Season 10 · 24 Feb 2022#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war- 42:40A saying attributed to him with reservation: the first casualty of war is truth.
Series · 31 Mar 2021A balance in nature?- 13:04Distinguished from Chamberlain: he fought against Hitler.
Season 8 · 11 Jun 2020#10 Return to the logics of the subject- 1:20:51Distinguished himself in the Boer War, where concentration camps appeared.