Lothrop Stoddard

Summary

Dominique Pagani discusses Lothrop Stoddard as a theorist of American racism who coined the term "underman" before the Nazi Untermensch1. He returns to him from one session to the next, from 2015 to 2025, in varied contexts: the abécédaire, in connection with the overman, whose history he says this case sheds light on2, the reading of Adotevi on negritude, a session on Proust, and analyses of the reconstitution of Nazism and of current politics. He mainly retains one point: Stoddard, who ranks the European races and wants to eliminate Native Americans, Black people and Asians, also counts among the inferior or dangerous races the white socialists who support them3. For him, this classification "drops the mask of colour"4 and proves that race is not what matters5. He also notes that Stoddard does not include Jews in this category1. He cites him as a link between American racism and the Nazi Untermensch6.

1. 1U for Übermensch4 Jan 2015 · 2:59
2. 2U for Übermensch4 Jan 2015 · 6:20
3. 3“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?31 Mar 2021 · 2:48
4. 4Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)17 Jun 2017 · 41:32
5. 5The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification21 Oct 2025 · 55:42
6. 6#6.6 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism29 Mar 2020 · 1:50:07

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.