Lucien Sève

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Lucien Sève mainly as a PCF philosopher and director of the Éditions sociales, and he stresses that Sève's role there was above all political1. He sees Marxisme et théorie de la personnalité as a book that gives new impetus to Marxism despite its intellectual sclerosis2. He notes Sève's faithfulness to Marx's text, which leads him to reject the idea of socialism as a stage3, his defence of the dialectics of nature4 and his proposal to speak of a materialism of Tätigkeit, of activity5. He calls him a great humanist of French communism. He also recalls that Sève's correspondence shows that Althusser did not know the Grundrisse, while describing Sève as in collusion with Althusser. On this point he cites Clouscard's judgement that Sève always takes his marks but never starts6. At one meeting, Bernard Friot also recommends his book Capitalexit ou catastrophe.

1. 1Clouscard and the problem of Socrates14 Oct 2022 · 5:31
2. 2Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)2 Aug 2016 · 16:52
3. 3The Phenomenology of Spirit2 Jul 2018 · 1:16:35
4. 4The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!17 Dec 2024 · 59:18
5. 5Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?3 Sept 2023 · 2:06:52
6. 6Preface to Simon Verdun's master's dissertation, “The critique of neo-Kantianism in Michel Clouscard”5 Jul 2018 · 1:06:22

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