Season 12 · 4 Jan 2024I am not who you think I am - The elusive identityPéguy
Appears in 10 videos · 12 passages, 3 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani presents Charles Péguy as a Catholic poet, sometimes described as "reactionary" or "right-wing", whose poetic greatness he nonetheless acknowledges1. He repeatedly takes up the phrase describing Descartes as "that French horseman who set off at such a good pace"23. His most constant borrowing is the aphorism "dead wood is habituated wood", which he first quotes about the Church. He then extends it to "habituated concepts"4, and later to "habituated voices". In a 2024 session on identity, he reads the Note conjointe sur M. Descartes closely: the habituated soul is impervious to grace, and a dead soul is "too stuffed with its past". Decent people without a wound lack nothing, and nothing is brought to them56. He also takes from Péguy the critique of the person who feels no need to search. Finally, he quotes the line "Blessed are the ripe ears and the harvested wheat".
- 1Hegel Plage 4/52 Feb 2016 · 1:16:40
- 2#2.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Mar 2016 · 57:17
- 3Ibn Battûta19 Feb 2020 · 41:20
- 4#16 Michel Clouscard : "Y a pas de vacances dans le concept !" - Dominique Pagani7 Jul 2022 · 42:09
- 5JE ne suis pas celui que vous croyez - L'identité introuvable4 Jan 2024 · 50:38
- 6JE ne suis pas celui que vous croyez - L'identité introuvable4 Jan 2024 · 58:44
Summary produced automatically from 12 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Charles Pierre Péguy (French:; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing (but generally non-practicing) Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works. Péguy was killed in World War I at age 41 by German invading forces near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne.
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Season 12 · 4 Jan 2024I am not who you think I am - The elusive identity
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 59:25Catholic poet, he sees in Descartes "that French cavalier who set off at so good a pace."
Season 12 · 22 Dec 2023Birth and carnage - The Massacre of the Innocents- 2:23:16Dead wood is the voices grown accustomed.
Season 11 · 18 May 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all- 1:52:27"Happy the ripe ears and the harvested wheat", cited as a line by a great Christian poet.
Season 10 · 7 Jul 2022#16 Michel Clouscard: "There are no holidays in the concept!" - Dominique Pagani- 42:09Great Christian poet: "dead wood is habituated wood," against habitual concepts.
Season 6 · 19 Feb 2020#6.5 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 41:20Right-wing Catholic poet who sees in Descartes "this French cavalier setting off at such a good pace."
Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:14:27Dead wood is wood that has grown used to it.
Season 2 · 10 Mar 2016#2.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 57:17Descartes, "that French cavalier who set off at such a good pace."
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 3/5- 1:47:52Descartes, that French cavalier who set off at such a good pace.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 4/5- 1:16:40A reactionary thinker but a great poet: 'the Church is dead wood, habituated wood.'