Napoléon

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani makes Napoleon the textbook example of Hegel's cunning of reason: an ambitious and vain "little Corsican" whom reason uses to bring about the modern state before casting him off to Saint Helena12. He presents him as a continuator of the Revolution, who fixes its gains in the Civil Code while closing the revolutionary period. He also counts him among the counter-revolutions34. He often returns to the German reception: for the avant-garde intelligentsia, Bonaparte brings the Revolution and ends the Holy Roman Empire, and he enters Jena just as Hegel is finishing the Phenomenology56. He uses him to mark an era, that of Beethoven, Hölderlin or Senancour, and mentions Nietzsche's fascination with Corte. He faults him for the Spanish war and the Continental Blockade, and places the start of Anglo-Saxon dominance at Waterloo. Finally, he notes that the Napoleonic myth crushes other expressions of Corsican culture.

1. 1Pagani sans détours21 Sept 2019 · 41:07
2. 2La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le monde comme "ruse de la raison"22 Jul 2023 · 37:04
3. 3Ce soir, on repolitise. 2ème partie31 Mar 2018 · 1:00:16
4. 4#5.4 Introduction / Nature ou Paysage ?25 Jan 2019 · 20:56
5. 5Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 21:27
6. 6#5.2 L’Odyssée du philosophe : La pensée révolutionnaire21 Nov 2018 · 27:43

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