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Engels

Friedrich Engels · German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895) · 1820–1895

Appears in 41 videos · 47 passages, 10 of them in depth.

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Dominique Pagani often returns to a formula from Engels and Marx: moving from the empire of necessity to the kingdom of freedom. He specifies that empire and kingdom do not mean the same thing1. He refuses to set Engels against Marx as a plodder against a genius. He sees him as a great teacher, who popularises in the best sense of the word under a division of labour. His formulations are sometimes more rigid out of teaching necessity, and he sums up synchronically what remains in Marx a diachrony in motion23. In Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, he agrees with him for distinguishing Marx from the utopians: the term "scientific" holds in relation to the utopias45. Yet he judges him more naturalist than Marx6. On the dialectics of nature, he accepts a dialectic that goes beyond the human sphere, but he prefers to speak of a dialectic of matter7. He also takes from Engels qualitative thresholds, Hegel's Philosophy of Right seen as the "old man's" testament, the letters on Balzac, and labour having created man.

  1. 1#9.19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation (part 2)14 Apr 2021 · 1:45:14
  2. 2#7 The Greeks, myth and music17 Dec 2020 · 9:36
  3. 3#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…17 Dec 2020 · 18:52
  4. 4#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…17 Dec 2020 · 26:51
  5. 5#13 Mozart restored2 Feb 2021 · 1:24:03
  6. 6Clouscard by you: answers to your questions28 Feb 2024 · 1:30:12
  7. 7Naturalist ideology: answers to questions25 Jul 2025 · 42:37

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Friedrich Engels ( ENG-(g)əlz; German:; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848) and developed the political and philosophical system that came to be known as Marxism. After Marx's death, Engels served as the editor of his works, completing the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. […]

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Cycle 9.1 · 17 Dec 2020#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…
  1. 7:41Utopian Socialism and Scientific SocialismTitle cited for the claim of scientificity.
  2. 18:52An immense pedagogue, he is not the drudge opposed to Marx; his formulations are sometimes more rigid out of didactic necessity.
  3. 26:51Utopian Socialism and Scientific SocialismHe is right to distinguish Marx from the utopians; one cannot remove a comma from his text.
Series · 17 Dec 2020#7 The Greeks, myth and music
  1. 1:39His letters on Balzac and his admiration for Hegel's Aesthetics are part of the fragments of a Marxist aesthetics.
  2. 9:36Dialectics of NatureHe is wrongly opposed to Marx; a great pedagogue, he sums up synchronically what remains a moving diachrony in Marx.
Talks · 6 Oct 2018On Marx
  1. 0:55Recipient of the letter in which Marx judges the positivists to be far below Hegel.
  2. 37:25With Marx, he speaks of moving from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

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