Family

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches the family through Sophocles' Antigone, which he reads with Hegel. For Hegel, the confrontation between Antigone and Creon is the supreme ethical opposition1. He refuses to see her as an individualist, or a leftist, set against society. In his view, the tragedy pits one community against another: on one side the family, blood and the genos, on the other the city, a more spiritual bond. It thus marks the passage from the genos to a broader society12. He links this conflict to the distinction between the private, which deprives, and the public domain, which belongs to all, and to the distinction between the State and the State apparatus, which he takes from Michel Clouscard. The citizen gives up part of his natural freedom. But death, funeral rites and the sacred belong to the private sphere, and a State that attacks the corpse oversteps its missions2. During the tribute to Domenico Losurdo, a question about the family leads to paragraph 185 of the Philosophy of Right. There Hegel foresees the dissolution of the patriarchal family through modern subjective freedom3.

1. 1A comme Antigone15 Dec 2014
2. 2La PHILO avec PAGANI : A comme ANTIGONE20 Mar 2023
3. 3Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018

Introduction produced automatically from the 3 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.