Richelieu

Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly refers to Richelieu as the man who establishes absolute monarchy, against the great nobles of the kingdom1. The point he recalls most often, from 2015 to 2023, is the ban on duels. Through this measure, he says, Richelieu "castrates" the nobility of the sword, that is, the warrior nobility, and he sees it as the beginning of absolute monarchy23. He returns to this point in varied contexts: a session devoted to Leibniz, a reflection on whether a real science of history is possible4, and another on the geopolitical metaphor. In a 2014 session on the thought of Michel Clouscard, the name serves to situate a period before absolute monarchy5. Elsewhere, in a session on modal and tonal music, he mentions Richelieu's policy of dividing Germany and connects it with German resentment and the massacre of Magdeburg6.

1. 1#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard17 Mar 2021 · 1:02:06
2. 2#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 15:30
3. 3From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment29 May 2023 · 39:47
4. 4#9.16 How can sciences of history be real?4 Mar 2021 · 1:00:36
5. 5#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: on the thought of M. Clouscard26 Sept 2014 · 16:28
6. 6#11 Modal and tonal music24 Jan 2021 · 1:51:02

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.