Hitler

Adolf Hitler · Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (1889–1945) · 1889–1945

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Summary

Dominique Pagani often returns to the complacency that brought Hitler to power: the pre-war bourgeoisie's watchword, "better Hitler than the Popular Front"1, then the concessions at Munich, made in the hope that he would turn against the USSR2. He criticizes the notion of totalitarianism for lifting him out of his "historical solitude" by giving him Stalin and the communists as companions3. He links him to Heidegger, who speaks of a duty of eros towards the Führer, and to the Nazi philosophers, such as Baeumler, whom his regime placed in the universities4. He points out his thesis that race matters more than nation, the enemy he designates for himself, "Judeo-Bolshevism", and the paranoid inversion that makes the Jews a threat5. The phrase "Austrian like Mozart" serves him as an example of abstract determination6. He also notes his admiration for Ford and his preference for Viennese operetta over Wagner. Finally, he points out that the leaders one wants to bring down are labelled a "new Hitler".

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Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. […]

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Cycle 13 · 25 Jul 2025Naturalist ideology: answers to questions

50:52Mentioned in connection with Heisenberg's sympathies.
1:11:06Said to have claimed that race matters more than nation, a naturalist notion.

Cycle 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens

14:37Cited among the invaders of Russia.
16:10The totalitarian amalgam removes him from his historical isolation; he designates Judeo-Bolshevism as the enemy.

Cycle 12 · 14 Aug 2024Too late?

12:00The Atlanticists hardly opposed him before the German-Soviet pact.
1:51:23He had Ford's portrait in his office; the Euro-Atlantic reactionary classes preferred Hitler to the Popular Front.

Cycle 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence

34:26The 50 million dead also come from those who preferred Hitler to the Popular Front.
38:32People counted on him against the USSR; he kept a portrait of Ford in his office and called the French neo-whites.

Cycle 10 · 27 Jan 2022#8 Philosophising under threat

1:05:53The crisis gave him his electorate; he conflated Jews and communists in "Judeo-Bolshevism."
1:38:51He wanted Leningrad to die of hunger and cold.

Cycle 10 · 8 Dec 2021#10.6 War and peace: “The death drives advance in silence…” (Freud)

1:17:17Before the Anschluss, he fears Mussolini and Austria; no one stands up to him, and at Munich he is granted almost everything.

Cycle 10 · 6 Oct 2021#10.2 Dialectics of identity and difference

2:17:01Ended up saying that it is not the nation that matters but the race.

Series · 31 Mar 2021“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?

49:10Red-brown par excellence, "brown self-reddened": the National Socialist party is a ruse. Industrialists surrounded him.

Series · 31 Mar 2021A balance in nature?

12:03Called a gentleman by Chamberlain on returning from Munich; the German-Soviet pact prevented him from striking an unprepared USSR.

Cycle 6 · 30 Jan 2020#6.4 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism

28:13The equation of Nazism with communism whitewashes him.
1:02:28He makes violent outbursts against the state: "the state must be pulverized."

Cycle 6 · 3 Dec 2019#6.2 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism

42:51Tells Speer that race matters more than nation; the Slavs were to be liquidated or enslaved.

Talks · 20 Jul 2018Education: can beauty be learned?

17:50An admirer of Ford.
30:35A vegetarian and member of a society against vivisection: loving animals does not make one a good man.
1:29:29He preferred Strauss's waltzes.

Talks · 2 Jul 2018Tribute to Domenico Losurdo

53:11The negation of universal man leads to "sub-men"; his defeat shows the irreversibility of certain results.

Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

30:53Welcomed with rejoicing in Austria, with tears in Prague.
54:09Saw the Jews as a threat when the threat was himself: a typical inversion of paranoia.

Cycle 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

34:15Rise of the Nazi party during the collapse of the center.
1:48:46A café brawler grown dangerous once given the green light, even within the university: the collective loses its reason.

Cycle 1 · 28 Jan 2016#1.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

1:18:37He sincerely believed that Jews were a danger: one can cause millions of deaths with ideas one believes to be generous.
1:29:48Arrived in power through universal suffrage.

Talks · 23 Jun 2015L'île du Peuple: the debate

6:12His ghost rejoices at the concept of totalitarian, which drowns Nazism, absolute evil, in the mass; he admired Henry Ford.

Cycle 15 · 8 Oct 2026Nature vs. freedom?

1:16:17The Führer, in the Heidegger sentences he quotes.

Cycle 14 · 28 Feb 2026Their “Europe” means war

42:47Mein KampfAmong fascists, war is programmatic: "read Mein Kampf."
47:32A bourgeoisie preferred him to the left and handed him the chancellery.

Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism

13:50He was naming Nazi philosophers at the university as early as the 1930s.
33:51At Munich, he grants him almost everything; Chamberlain says of him that he is a gentleman.
1:04:22Chapoutot quotes his words: "the state must be pulverized."

Cycle 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification

14:18Born in Austria, in the south, a historic hotbed of Nazism.
43:12Among the leaders who died before they could be tried.

Cycle 14 · 29 Aug 2025State and state apparatus: the conflict between public and private

13:59the concept of totalitarianism allowed him to escape his historical solitude by putting the communists into it
21:04Austrian like Mozart: example of reduction to the essential

Cycle 13 · 15 May 2025Imaginary identity

35:09Invaded Russia like Napoleon.
51:21Neither he, nor Göring, nor Goebbels was the blond Aryan: they were men with complexes.

Cycle 13 · 13 Oct 2024The eternal return… of the death camps?

1:06:54He had Snow White screened several times a day.

Cycle 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle

42:44The German-Soviet non-aggression pact, which came after Munich, is not an alliance with him.
45:27Invokes Wagner in his speeches but listens to Viennese operetta.

Cycle 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?

1:13:15Received power despite electoral setbacks.

Cycle 12 · 2 May 2024Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: Clouscard, as relevant as ever

10:53Appeased at Munich; he had a portrait of Henry Ford in his office.

Talks · 23 Mar 2024Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

1:15:52The Munich signatories struck a deal with him hoping he would turn against the USSR.
1:33:23His hordes caused 25 million deaths in the USSR.

Cycle 12 · 28 Feb 2024Clouscard by you: answers to your questions

2:08:06The NSDAP tinged its nationalism with socialism to win over the communist electorate.

Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?

1:06:53Austrian too, which shows the emptiness of the abstract universal.

Cycle 11 · 9 Jul 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?

1:28:56His regime placed philosophers in the universities.
1:34:43Workers also voted for him.

Talks · 29 May 2023From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment

21:18"Heil" means health, like salut.

Talks · 27 Mar 2023Praxis and psyche

55:01Named several minor Nazi philosophers.

Cycle 11 · 18 Mar 2023A springtime of the peoples?

22:34The referendum is equated with the plebiscite, as if it only served Hitler or Napoleon.

Cycle 11 · 17 Feb 2023Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war

5:01"Rather Hitler than the Popular Front," people said in the 1930s.

Cycle 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)

27:39The Austrian: the strongholds of Nazism are in the south, not in militaristic Prussia.

Cycle 10 · 24 Feb 2022#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war

1:45:06He backed down before Mussolini's firmness at the Brenner; Western concessions strengthened him.

Series · 17 Nov 2021Left-washing: are the woke the most asleep?

1:05:30His speeches before a mesmerized crowd show the force of vocal timbre.

Series · 21 May 2021Heidegger, or panzer-philosophy

23:46The Führer invoked by the former father-in-law in his reply to Berlin.

Series · 25 Mar 2021#17 Interpretation

1:07:21Evoked regarding Swiss policy toward Jewish refugees.

Cycle 9.2 · 17 Mar 2021#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard

34:28The great Nuremberg rallies: imagination already in power, the aesthetics of the show.

Series · 28 Jan 2021#12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner

1:23:21Cited in connection with the Nazi sympathies of part of the British aristocracy.

Series · 15 Dec 2020#6 The jazz variation… by Beethoven

5:20Used Wagner for propaganda but preferred Viennese operetta.

Series · 3 Dec 2020#2 From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval, on music

56:41Snow White was his favorite film.

Cycle 9.1 · 6 Nov 2020#3 Benefits and harms of amnesia…

1:01:28Leaders to be brought down are called "the new Hitler."

Talks · 24 Sept 2020Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought

51:57The notion of totalitarianism gives him Stalin as a companion.

Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude

44:08Jünger reproaches him for wanting to extend to the West the war waged in the East.
1:05:33Heidegger sends him telegrams in order to become his adviser.

Cycle 7 · 26 Apr 2020#6 Harnessed to confinitude

1:42:26The Führer toward whom Heidegger speaks of a duty of eros.

Cycle 6 · 29 Mar 2020#6.6 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism

1:49:24Rosenberg is his theorist.

Cycle 6 · 10 Nov 2019#6.1 Prelude: Lacan, “Function and field of speech and language”

14:40New historians present him as a bulwark against "Judeo-Bolshevism."

Cycle 6 · 23 Oct 2019#6.1 The logic of the subject

10:56The Führer, invoked in the father-in-law's letter.
18:25Thanks to the notion of totalitarianism, he is no longer alone in his grave.

Talks · 29 Sept 2019The religion of money

1:17:22"Hitler is a man too": man in general does not exist.

Series · 23 Aug 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987)

1:41:29"Rather Hitler than the Popular Front," said bourgeois Europe.

Talks · 3 Aug 2019Money, work, freedom

17:14Nasser presented as "the new Hitler" by the press.

Series · 2 May 2019Michel Foucault

21:30He places Baeumler in the German universities.

Cycle 5.1 · 21 Nov 2018#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought

41:55Praised by the bourgeoisie when he imprisoned unions and communists: 'better Hitler than the Popular Front.'

Talks · 6 Oct 2018On Marx

25:37He held it against progressives, communists, Jews, but not against humanity as a whole, unlike a certain environmentalism.
52:42Austrian like Mozart: example of an answer that is inexact because partial.