Patrick Tort

Summary

Dominique Pagani speaks of Patrick Tort as a friend he met in Côte d'Ivoire. He presents him as a naturalist for whom man cannot be understood without a naturalist materialism1. What he chiefly retains from him is his reading of Darwin: Tort fought social Darwinism by showing that Darwin puts solidarity to the fore2. In this connection he takes up the notion of the "reversive effect", according to which altruism is as necessary to survival as selfishness, and he draws on it in a session devoted to music, between Lévi-Strauss and Nerval3. The name also comes up in questions from the audience. In 2017 he is asked about Tort's latest book on materialism and puts off his answer until later. In 2022 a question from the audience attributes to Tort the idea that man inherits the symbol, which is already at work in animals4. The passages do not say how he answers it.

1. 1#12 Return to the logics of the subject2 Jul 2020 · 1:27:56
2. 2#7 The Greeks, myth and music17 Dec 2020 · 58:53
3. 3#2 From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval, on music3 Dec 2020 · 40:26
4. 4#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge7 Apr 2022 · 1:57:42

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