Cycle 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?- 36:35"France must be governed from the center"; he sought clemency for the assassins of the OAS: a figure of the extreme center.
Giscard d'Estaing
Appears in 37 videos · 41 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani treats Giscard d'Estaing as a chronological marker, often following Clouscard: with him begins, after 1968, the sequence in which the centre dominates, collective gains are liberalised and the public service is dismantled123. He sees in him the shift from the capitalism of effort and saving to that of "l'éclate" (letting loose)4. The president who plays the accordion in front of the cameras marks a turning point, in contrast to de Gaulle, the "commandeur"5. He places him in the centre right of the "extreme centre", alongside the Independent Republicans and the "divers modérés" (assorted moderates), and compares him to Mitterrand, with whom he supposedly produced the same society, as well as to Louis-Philippe and Macron67. He recalls several times that Giscard threatened to resign if de Gaulle did not pardon the OAS putschists8, and that he wanted to write the Christian reference into the European Constitution. He also mentions "Giscard l'Africain" and the Françafrique of his seven-year term.
- 1#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)2 Nov 2018 · 57:31
- 2War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism3 Mar 2023 · 19:45
- 3Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: is Michel Clouscard still relevant?23 May 2026 · 43:56
- 4In conversation with Bernard Friot (1 June 2018)12 Jun 2018 · 2:27:39
- 5#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: on the thought of M. Clouscard26 Sept 2014 · 22:32
- 6Why is Clouscard indispensable?3 Jan 2023 · 6:14
- 7The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society9 Aug 2025 · 45:44
- 8For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?24 Jun 2024 · 36:35
Summary produced automatically from 42 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
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Who is this?Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (UK:, US: ; French: ; 2 February 1926 – 2 December 2020), also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was President of France from 1974 to 1981. After serving as Minister of Finance under prime ministers Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Pierre Messmer, Giscard d'Estaing won the presidential election of 1974 with 50.8% of the vote against François Mitterrand of the Socialist Party. […]
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Cycle 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?
Series · 10 Sept 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)
Talks · 23 May 2026Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: is Michel Clouscard still relevant?- 43:56Inaugurates the sequence of destruction of public services.
Talks · 16 May 2026Mali: a response to Emmanuel Macron's remarks at the Africa Forward summit- 4:23Nicknamed "Giscard the African" after the diamonds affair.
Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism- 15:41Durafour was one of his ministers.
Cycle 14 · 9 Aug 2025The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society- 45:44With Mitterrand, a figure of the extreme center that produced the same society.
Talks · 7 Feb 2025Michel Clouscard and the betrayal of May 68- 21:21He authorizes the pill; his policy avoids the return of overproduction.
Cycle 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!- 31:23Beginning of the liquidation of the Gaullist right and the Communist left.
Cycle 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle- 1:23:07Compared to Louis-Philippe.
Cycle 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence- 35:36Cited among the figures of the center-right.
Cycle 12 · 22 Dec 2023Birth and carnage: the Massacre of the Innocents- 1:40:08The liberal who threatened to resign if De Gaulle did not pardon the OAS assassins.
Series · 5 Aug 2023Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”- 6:29Associated with the extreme centre and the "various moderates."
Cycle 11 · 22 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the world as “cunning of reason”- 2:04:46A chronological marker of the beginning of the decline of social gains.
Cycle 11 · 3 Mar 2023War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism- 19:45First in the series of leaders who liberalize collective gains.
Series · 3 Jan 2023Why is Clouscard indispensable?- 6:14He represents the centre-right of the extreme centre.
Cycle 10 · 7 Apr 2022#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge- 30:22His opposition to Mitterrand has nothing dialectical about it.
Cycle 10 · 22 Sept 2021#10.1 The eternal irony of the community- 1:14:53Cited with Mitterrand regarding decentralization.
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 2)- 9:32unanimism was his credo, as it was Macron's
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 1)- 14:35His slogan: "change within continuity".
Series · 11 Jan 2021#8 Happiness and unhappiness in music- 44:56First of the counter-offensive after '68.
Cycle 9.1 · 3 Dec 2020#7 Answers to questions (continued)- 48:13Séguéla's interlocutor in a dialogue.
Cycle 8 · 21 Jun 2020#11 Return to the logics of the subject- 1:05:54Center-right "ex-Vichyite Giscardian."
Cycle 6 · 29 Mar 2020#6.6 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 1:00:51Cited alongside Mitterrand.
Talks · 6 Dec 2019“The Brass Band's Journey”, by Dominique Memmi- 48:02A participant recalls his discreet visits to Bangui and his hunting trips: "Giscard the African."
Cycle 6 · 3 Dec 2019#6.2 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 1:28:27Wanted to inscribe the reference to Christianity in the European constitution.
Series · 23 Aug 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987)
Series · 2 May 2019Michel Foucault
Cycle 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)- 57:31Beginning of the sequence dominated by the center.
Talks · 6 Oct 2018On Marx- 40:42Cited in the sequence on ongoing privatization.
Talks · 12 Jun 2018In conversation with Bernard Friot (1 June 2018)- 2:27:39Associated with "the blast," after the capitalism of effort and saving.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus
Talks · 17 Jun 2017Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2)- 6:56Under him, Françafrique becomes completely different.
Cycle 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 34:15Too identified with the right to get through what a social democrat can do.
Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 51:56Mentioned for the expression "worldly coercion".
Series · 26 Sept 2014#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: on the thought of M. Clouscard- 22:32Marks the turning point: he plays the accordion before the cameras, the opposite of the commander.
Series · 7 Jul 2012Radio Galère: Michel Clouscard (2)- 41:28Starting from him: "let yourself go."
Series · 6 Jul 2012Radio Galère: Michel Clouscard (1)- 6:55The publisher recalls his Vichyist testimony reported by Mendès France in The Sorrow and the Pity.