What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani praises in Losurdo a "dowser's genius": he follows the trail of texts, digs through the archives of authors of no philosophical value but decisive for the history of ideas, and puts on record the self-contradictions of others12. He regards Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel as the greatest comprehensive work on Nietzsche. In his view the book is well documented, fair and more nuanced than people assume, and it establishes Nietzsche's antisemitism with documents in support34. He owes to him his discovery of Lothrop Stoddard and the origin of the notion of the subhuman. He also draws on Self-Censorship and Compromise in Kant's Political Thought, which shows what could not be said in Kant's Germany, and on the idea that Hegel's obscurity is partly due to censorship5. In 2018 he devotes a tribute session to him centred on L'Hypocondrie de l'impolitique, in which apoliticism appears as a decisive theme of the contemporary age6. He also mentions Liberalism: A Counter-History, which analyses actual liberalism as the freedom of the privileged, and Class Struggle, which he recommends as a defence of Marxism.
- 1#7 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude5 May 2020 · 43:42
- 2«Rouges-bruns», «décolonial» : Faut-il utiliser la langue dominante ? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 6:14
- 3#7 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude5 May 2020 · 1:26:36
- 4Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 1:17:32
- 5Musicosophie 15. Platon, Rouseau, Hegel et la musique9 Feb 2021 · 53:21
- 6Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 13:48
Summary produced automatically from 34 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Season 7 · 5 May 2020#7 • Harnessed to confinitude- 30:05Heidegger and the Resignation of German PhilosophyHis essay shows the resignation of German philosophy under the Third Reich.
- 43:42A genius of a dowser: he traces texts and calls out those who contradict themselves.
- 1:26:36Nietzsche, the Aristocratic RebelHis Nietzsche, published by Delga, is the greatest work on Nietzsche, well documented and more nuanced than one might assume.
Series · 31 Mar 2021"Red-browns", "decolonial": Should we use the dominant language? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani- 0:59The Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical HistoryHe recommends this book, which defends Marxism, and praises his "dowser's genius," whose loss has not been made up for.
- 6:14He digs through the archives of authors of no philosophical value, but decisive for the history of ideas.
- 8:43Nietzsche, the Aristocratic RebelHis monumental monograph on Nietzsche is fair and more nuanced than one might imagine.
Talks · 2 Jul 2018The Phenomenology of Spirit- 47:29A participant recalls that he insisted on equality before the law in German idealism, against classical liberalism, and thought through existing socialist states.
- 1:15:15Sought the concrete universal: he defended the rediscovery of nations and socialism, against millenarian temptations.
Season 14 · 21 Oct 2025The silences of the media uproar - new cycle: the Atlanticist re-Nazification.- 56:06A deceased comrade to whom he owes the discovery of Stoddard; he reconstructs the real history.
Season 10 · 23 Jun 2022#15 Nietzsche: Philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions- 1:22:13Marxist philosopher, author of the most exhaustive work on Nietzsche; he affirms that the sister is less fascist than Nietzsche.
Series · 28 Jan 2021Musicosophy 12. Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner- 1:17:32He established Nietzsche's antisemitism with supporting documents and discovered the doctored 1872 letter.
Season 8 · 17 Jul 2020#14 • Return to the logics of the subject- 27:32Counter-History of LiberalismHe analyzes perpetual peace, universalism and manifest destiny; the guests also cite A World Without War.
- 1:12:25Among the authors read in connection with Clouscard.
Season 6 · 30 Jan 2020#6.4 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 13:27Nietzsche, the Aristocratic RebelAuthor of the greatest work on Nietzsche; he made Lothrop Stoddard known.
Series · 4 Jan 2015U for Übermensch- 2:10Italian philosopher, 'tracker of documents', the best connoisseur of Nietzsche's text in Europe. He taught Pagani the origin of the notion of the subhuman.
Series · 10 Mar 2021Musicosophy 16. Programme music / Pure music- 32:04The revolutionary country in 1914 is Germany, and France does not make a revolution in 1918.
Series · 9 Feb 2021Musicosophy 15. Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music- 53:21Self-Censorship and Compromise in Kant's Political ThoughtShows what could not be said in Kant's Germany.
Series · 15 Jan 2021Musicosophy 9. Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata- 49:41Self-Censorship and Compromise in Kant's Political ThoughtCited in opposition to D'Hondt.
Talks · 24 Sept 2020Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought- 21:51Points out that the American founding fathers owned slaves.
Series · 5 Jul 2018Being and Code- 46:52Specialist in the history of American immigration.
- 1:51:30Great left-Hegelian to whom the next session will pay tribute.
Talks · 2 Jul 2018Tribute to Domenico Losurdo- 1:44The Hypochondria of the UnpoliticalHis visit to France and his book on the figure of hypochondria motivate the session.
- 13:48He saw that apoliticism, subsumed under hypochondria, is a decisive theme of contemporaneity.
- 1:29:13His work in progress on Nietzsche is the richest in information on Nietzsche.
Season 4 · 16 May 2018#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:19:10Recommended on Hegel and his time.
Talks · 31 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 2- 30:25He pays tribute to the anticolonialist Schopenhauer in a book on the critique of apoliticism.
- 51:29He shows that Hegel's obscurity is partly due to censorship.
Talks · 12 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 1- 48:51A participant cites him as the thinker who most valorized the national question.
Talks · 17 Jun 2017Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)- 41:32Publisher of Éditions Delga through whom Pagani came to know Lothrop Stoddard.
Talks · 2 Aug 2016Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2)- 32:04An Italian interpreter who comments on these theses on another level.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 1/5- 5:51Present at an earlier session devoted to Hegel.
Series · 7 Jul 2012Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 2- 9:18Published by Delga.
Series · 6 Jul 2012Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 1- 19:07According to the publisher, the great discriminations have receded thanks to the workers' movement.
- 37:26Analyzes actually existing liberalism as the freedom of the privileged.
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