Cycle 15 · 28 Aug 2026From Copernicus to Lenin: revolution!- 2:48His "listen to the scientists" treats science as a grammar to be learned, whereas the scientists themselves do not agree.
Greta Thunberg
Appears in 13 videos · 18 passages, 1 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani mentions Greta Thunberg mainly to criticise the use others make of her. From 2019 on, he describes her as a child exploited by financial circles1, then as a figure promoted by a capitalism that benefits from the ideology of degrowth and from making consumption a source of guilt23. He repeats one phrase several times: it is not her youth that has been stolen from her, but her maturity4. He also cites the opposition between the "end of the world" and the "end of the month". From 2019 to 2026, his criticism focuses mostly on the slogan "listen to the scientists". In his view, it assumes a unanimous scientific community, whereas the history of science is made of ruptures and scientists do not agree among themselves5. He compares it to "outside the Church there is no salvation"6. He also sees in it a cult of science among people who do not know science, a confusion between scientific and moral relevance7, and a disregard for the political use of science.
- 1M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)10 Sept 2019 · 2:10:51
- 2The world before, the world after (part 2)16 Jan 2021 · 50:52
- 3#14 Mozart once more7 Feb 2021 · 1:04:56
- 4Ecologism is the opium of the beautiful people: preface to Dominique Mazuet's book, “Of Calves and Things”4 Oct 2020 · 15:25
- 5From Copernicus to Lenin: revolution!28 Aug 2026 · 2:48
- 6#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard17 Mar 2021 · 19:23
- 7The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!17 Dec 2024 · 25:18
Summary produced automatically from 18 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish: ; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues. She gained global attention in 2018, at age 15, after starting a solo school strike outside the Swedish parliament, which inspired the worldwide Fridays for Future movement. […]
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Cycle 15 · 28 Aug 2026From Copernicus to Lenin: revolution!
Cycle 14 · 9 Aug 2025The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society- 26:11His "listen to the scientists" illustrates a cult of science without knowing it.
Cycle 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!- 25:18His "listen to the scientists" confuses scientific relevance with moral relevance.
Cycle 9.2 · 17 Mar 2021#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard
Series · 7 Feb 2021#14 Mozart once more- 1:04:56Coached by Sweden's wealthiest to make people feel guilty about consumption.
Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 2)- 50:52put forward by a capitalism to which the ideology of degrowth is convenient
Talks · 4 Oct 2020Calves and Things: the preface
Cycle 8 · 23 Jul 2020#15 Return to the logics of the subject
Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude- 1:18:44His "listen to the scientists" ignores the political use of science.
Cycle 6 · 8 Jan 2020#6.3 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 1:16:54Evoked in connection with the burning zeal to tear man away from the sensible.
Cycle 6 · 23 Oct 2019#6.1 The logic of the subject
Series · 10 Sept 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)
Cycle 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019#5.8 Nature or landscape?- 1:39:41A sick child exploited by financial circles; it is said that she sees CO2 with the naked eye.