Lukács

Summary

What Dominique Pagani mainly takes from Lukács is The Destruction of Reason. He sees in it an account of the bourgeoisie's irrationalist turn, from Schelling to Heidegger, which traces Nazi ideology back to German Romanticism and makes 1848 the pivot of the history of thought12. He often recommends the article "Hegel and German Fascism", which lists the philosophers of the Nazi regime who opposed the Enlightenment, Weimar humanism and French rationality34. He brings Lukács and Clouscard together on the bourgeois refusal to go beyond Kant5. He also has reservations: Lukács does not go far enough on Being and Time6, his thesis that bourgeois art has declined since 1848 is hard to defend in general form, and The Young Hegel, which brought out Hegel's studies of political economy, remains tied to the thesis that Hegel turned conservative7. Finally, he regards him as the most important of the Marxist aestheticians.

1. 1#4 Harnessed to confinitude11 Apr 2020 · 5:20
2. 2#7 Harnessed to confinitude5 May 2020 · 1:10:31
3. 3#5 Happiness versus the death drive in music11 Dec 2020 · 52:35
4. 4Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?9 Jul 2023 · 1:28:36
5. 5Praxis and psyche27 Mar 2023 · 52:34
6. 6Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought24 Sept 2020 · 46:29
7. 7Tribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2)2 Aug 2016 · 23:56

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