Derrida

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani makes Derrida the end point of the postwar French philosophical school, "from Sartre to Derrida", following the picture Clouscard draws1. This school grows up in Heidegger's shadow and becomes increasingly anti-Hegelian2. He notes that Derrida defends Heidegger and translates Aufhebung as "relève". Along with Foucault and Deleuze, he places him among the hyper-Nietzscheans of the post-1968 ideological counter-revolution3, that is, among the readers who distort Nietzsche. He reads two books closely. In Writing and Difference, the play of infinite substitutions in a field without a centre rules out totalization: this is the starting point of post-structuralism4. In Specters of Marx, Marxism becomes a spectral idea of justice and comes to an end as knowledge5. In his view, the deconstruction of grand narratives is a moment of the dominant ideology that passes itself off as a critique of idealism6. He nevertheless credits Derrida with having read others and with having been loyal. He also borrows, ironically, the word "deconstruct" from him.

1. 1Avec Clouscard2 Aug 2016 · 1:24:15
2. 2Hegel Plage 2/51 Feb 2016 · 22:37
3. 3Left-washing : Les wokes sont-ils les plus endormis ?17 Nov 2021 · 8:57
4. 4Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 12:40
5. 5Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 16:43
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 1:39:55

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