Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to DaedalusLouis XIV
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Summary
Dominique Pagani sees Louis XIV as the figure of absolute monarchy and of the longest and most stable reign in French history. He often comes back to the same idea: the king keeps the nobility at court, problems are "internalized", and "one makes love instead of war"12. In his view, this stability blocks the critical movement opened by the Renaissance and humanism, which only resumes with the Enlightenment, after the king's death in 171534. As the only one who can say "I" and the one placed at the centre of the circle, the king's transcendence imposes litotes on the classical language5. He links Versailles, Lully, Molière and Racine to this reign: the king dances in court spectacles and suggests cuts to Tartuffe, and Pagani compares him to Theseus at the centre of Athens, whom Hippolytus defies6. He also mentions Fouquet's arrest, Vatel's suicide at Chantilly and the traces of the period in Nerval.
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- 2Preface to Simon Verdun's master's dissertation, “The critique of neo-Kantianism in Michel Clouscard”5 Jul 2018 · 57:02
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- 5Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self2 Dec 2024 · 24:34
- 6The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner6 Feb 2022 · 6:09
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Who is this?Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as the "Sun King", was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. He is the longest-reigning monarch in history, reigning for 72 years and 110 days. His reign brought about a golden age in French history, marked by a great expansion of the French colonial empire and a flourishing of French culture throughout Europe. As an absolute monarch, Louis expanded monarchical rule and diminished the power of the nobility, developing a strong centralised state ruled from the Palace of Versailles that persisted until the French Revolution. […]
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Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus
Talks · 29 May 2023From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment
Cycle 9.2 · 4 Mar 2021#9.16 How can sciences of history be real?- 1:00:36The absolute monarchy blocks the social advancement of the Jansenists; optimism returns at his death with the Enlightenment.
Cycle 6 · 30 Jan 2020#6.4 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 59:36The longest reign, stability: Versailles, Molière, Lully, Racine; war gives way to love.
Series · 10 Sept 2019M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (part 2)- 1:03:16Received with too much pomp by Fouquet, he has him arrested and takes his gardener.
Cycle 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)- 13:40His stable reign, "L'État, c'est moi," puts on hold the critical movement opened in the sixteenth century.
Series · 5 Jul 2018Being and Code- 57:02The most stable reign in the history of France, which interiorizes problems at court.
Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 19:23His reign stabilizes power: this is absolute monarchy, which brings about the interiorization of problems in literature.
Series · 26 Sept 2014#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: on the thought of M. Clouscard
Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism- 17:57His death in 1715 closes the 17th century; the longest reign in French history.
Cycle 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self- 24:34At the center of the circle; his presence explains litotes in French literature.
Cycle 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle- 1:21:47The seventeenth century is named after him.
Cycle 11 · 12 Dec 2022Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval- 9:25The absolute monarchy that draws the feudal lords to court.
Cycle 10 · 10 Jun 2022#14 Caves of yesterday and today: from Plato to modernity- 58:01Trézène is compared to the Versailles of his youth, a former hunting residence of Louis XIII.
Cycle 10 · 24 Feb 2022#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war- 13:00His Versailles is opposed to Louis XIII's little Versailles.
Series · 6 Feb 2022The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner- 6:09He was fond of Molière and advised cuts in Tartuffe; he himself danced in court performances.
Series · 4 Oct 2021#4 Nomad and sedentary: the case of Nerval- 1:40:45The royal banquet at Chantilly where Vatel commits suicide.
Series · 19 Jul 2021Being born human is not enough to be human- 2:07His century is the one that most historians call the great century.
Cycle 9.2 · 9 Jun 2021#9.23 “Ruled like music paper!” Bach, Nerval, Lévi-Strauss- 52:38His era left traces in the songs of Senlis.
Series · 31 Mar 2021Wagner and his interpreters, approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus?- 1:00:09The era of Racine as courtier-tragedian.
Series · 28 Jan 2021#12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner- 1:35His century, which seems homogeneous, is split in two.
Cycle 8 · 11 Jun 2020#10 Return to the logics of the subject- 56:04The king dances in Lully's comedies.
Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude- 4:49An example of a power that, by nature, does not tell everything.
Cycle 7 · 11 Apr 2020#4 Harnessed to confinitude- 1:10:32The short eighteenth century begins with his death.
Cycle 5.2 · 4 Feb 2019#5.4 Nature or landscape?- 1:09:56At the center of Versailles, as Theseus is at the center of Athens.
Talks · 2 Jul 2018The Phenomenology of Spirit- 1:01:44His absolute monarchy blocks the movement of the Renaissance in the seventeenth century.
Talks · 20 May 2018Work and the right to work- 2:44The least social century, in which La Bruyère writes.
Cycle 4 · 12 Apr 2018#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:30:08The most centralizing king was called the Sun King.
Cycle 4 · 12 Feb 2018#4.5 Angélique (by Nerval)- 15:19Nerval digs through the police archives of his time.
Cycle 4 · 18 Oct 2017#4.1 Angélique (by Nerval)- 1:12:03Power is always above the power it exercises.
Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 24:20Hippolytus, by attacking his father's glory, attacks Louis XIV.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 52:01Establishment of absolute monarchy.
Cycle 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 8:26His reign blocks the movement between humanism and the Enlightenment.
Talks · 9 Mar 2017Is history a subject?
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 3/5- 45:41After his death, tongues loosen.