Cycle 10 · 23 Jun 2022#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions- 14:39An honest man who attempts a mediation between Rousseau and the Encyclopedists, addressee of the four letters.
Malesherbes
Appears in 20 videos · 21 passages, 5 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani mentions Malesherbes almost always in connection with Rousseau, who addressed his letters to him. He presents him as a cultivated Enlightenment aristocrat, an "honnête homme" and a senior official in charge of censorship, favourable to new ideas and a friend of the philosophes1. What he mainly retains is his role as a mediator: linked to the Encyclopedists and well-intentioned, Malesherbes tries to reconcile Rousseau with them and to act as an interface between him and the Enlightenment234. He recalls that Malesherbes asks Rousseau to explain his walks and what he finds in the forest5, and that he believes Rousseau to be the unhappiest of men. The four letters Rousseau wrote in reply are the text Dominique Pagani quotes and comments on: he counts them among Rousseau's texts richest in sounds, and points to the passage on the modern "tintamarre" (din) and the admission of a willed sadness6. He draws on them in varied contexts: music, nature and landscape, anthropology, worldliness.
- 1Money, work, freedom3 Aug 2019 · 49:57
- 2W for Wolmar6 Jan 2015 · 7:09
- 3What is to be done? 3/329 Jan 2016 · 22:29
- 4#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 14:39
- 5#3 The myth of the noble savage in Rousseau23 Sept 2014 · 2:16
- 6#13 Mozart restored2 Feb 2021 · 39:26
Summary produced automatically from 21 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (French pronunciation:, 6 December 1721 – 22 April 1794), often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense of Louis XVI. He is known for his vigorous criticism of royal abuses as President of the Cour des aides and his role, as director of censorship, in helping with the publication of the Encyclopédie. Despite his committed monarchism, his writings contributed to the development of liberalism during the French Age of Enlightenment.
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Cycle 10 · 23 Jun 2022#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions
Series · 2 Feb 2021#13 Mozart restored- 39:26An aristocrat opposed to certain forms of censorship, addressee of the letters where Rousseau expresses his willed sadness.
Cycle 5.1 · 24 Oct 2018#5.1 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought- 30:50An honest man in charge of censorship, favorable to the new ideas, a mediator between Rousseau and the encyclopedists.
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 3/3
Series · 23 Sept 2014#3 The myth of the noble savage in Rousseau- 2:16An enlightened aristocrat, friend of Rousseau, wanting to reconcile him with his adversaries; he asks him to explain himself about his walks.
Cycle 11 · 3 Sept 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?- 1:25:10Addressee of Rousseau's letters.
Talks · 29 May 2023From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment- 16:03Interface between the writers of the Enlightenment and Rousseau, addressee of the letters.
Cycle 11 · 23 Nov 2022The aporias of anthropology- 55:52Addressee of Rousseau's letters.
Series · 29 Jun 2022John Lewis: classical or jazz?- 1:08Recipient of Rousseau's letter on the modern din.
Series · 3 Dec 2020#2 From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval, on music- 13:41Addressee of Rousseau's letter.
Cycle 7 · 18 Apr 2020#5 Harnessed to confinitude- 10:31Addressee of Rousseau's letters.
Cycle 6 · 19 Feb 2020#6.5 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 53:43Addressee of Rousseau's letters.
Talks · 29 Sept 2019The religion of money- 3:49An aristocrat of the establishment, an intermediary between Rousseau and his adversaries.
Talks · 3 Aug 2019Money, work, freedom- 49:57High official in charge of censorship, friend of the philosophers, recipient of Rousseau's letters.
Cycle 5.2 · 26 Mar 2019#5.5 Nature or landscape?- 1:26:20Asks Rousseau what he finds in the forest.
Cycle 5.2 · 25 Jan 2019#5.4 Introduction: nature or landscape?- 23:06Addressee of Rousseau's letters.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 4/5- 47:26Intermediary between Rousseau and the encyclopedists, recipient of the letters.
Cycle 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 1:16:15Cultivated aristocrat of the Enlightenment who tries to reconcile Rousseau and the encyclopedists.
Series · 6 Jan 2015W for Wolmar- 7:09Well-intentioned, he attempts mediation between Rousseau and the Enlightenment.
Series · 27 Dec 2014M for Music- 2:55Addressee of Rousseau's letters, quoted among his texts rich in sounds.