Épicure

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Epicurus through Marx's doctoral thesis, devoted to the difference between Democritus and Epicurus12. He stresses that Marx sets the two atomists squarely against each other and sides with Epicurus: Marx is an Epicurean atomist, not a Democritean one, because for him the atom is the clinamen34. He reads this clinamen as a swerve that inclines each atom towards the other, and he makes it a key to understanding Marx's political thought, notably in his 2018 and 2019 sessions on repoliticisation and on Hegel and the yellow vests56. He also places Epicurus among the ancient materialists and treats him as the ancient source of the libertines' materialist tradition. He says he has nothing against him, but faults today's fashionable Epicureans for stopping at the pleasure principle7. He also cites him among the great names he refuses to set against one another.

1. 1Mythologie Grecque31 Dec 2018 · 19:20
2. 2La laïcité, vérité de la religion ?18 Feb 2024 · 37:13
3. 3Ce soir, on repolitise. 1ère partie12 Mar 2018 · 1:02:14
4. 4Ce soir, on repolitise. 1ère partie12 Mar 2018 · 1:06:19
5. 5Ce soir, on repolitise. 2ème partie31 Mar 2018 · 1:47:40
6. 6Hegel et les gilets jaunes (1ère partie)13 Feb 2019 · 1:29:20
7. 7L comme Liberté26 Dec 2014 · 7:18

Summary produced automatically from 13 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.