Sartre

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mostly approaches Sartre through Michel Clouscard. As a member of the thesis jury, Sartre praises L'Être et le Code as "a totalization in progress", but judges it too ambitious for a single author to carry out alone1. Pagani recalls that the book's original title set Rousseau against Sartre, the figure of the intellectual who seeks to be on the left without being communist2. He places Sartre in the postwar French school, standing in Heidegger's shadow. He reads the Critique of Dialectical Reason closely: in his view, Sartre upholds an absolute individualism there and reduces praxis to individual need, which amounts to animalizing man and regressing from Hegel, while still declaring Marxism unsurpassable3. He values, on the other hand, The Roads to Freedom, the Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions and The Family Idiot4. He defends Sartre against Foucault and the structuralist parricide, and prefers "a quarter of Sartre" to today's media philosophers5.

1. 1#5.9 Kafka Un message impérial29 Jul 2019 · 1:05:31
2. 2Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 219 Jun 2016 · 20:11
3. 3Ce soir, on repolitise. 2ème partie31 Mar 2018 · 26:43
4. 4Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 8:30
5. 5La religion de l'Argent29 Sept 2019 · 14:02

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