Summary
Dominique Pagani addresses Nazism mainly in his 2019-2020 cycle on "the logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism". He opens it in response to the European Parliament resolution that puts Nazism and communism on the same footing. There he argues that the core of Nazi ideology is naturalist. Against the negation of the subject, which he also finds in structuralism, he sets Kant's legislation through freedom and Hegelian recognition. He traces the notion of the subhuman to the American Lothrop Stoddard, whom Rosenberg read. He draws on Losurdo, on Lukács and on Chapoutot, who describes a liberal Nazi management whose executives later founded business schools. He reads Nazism as an absolute non-knowledge born at the heart of modern civilisation1. He calls Heidegger "the most Nazi of the great philosophers" and above all reproaches him for his attitude after the war2. He rejects the concept of totalitarianism and defines evil as the non-natural reintroduction of the state of nature. Since 2025 he has spoken of an "Atlanticist renazification" and recalls that American intelligence services recruited former Nazis3.
- 1#6.6 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism29 Mar 2020
- 2Heidegger, or panzer-philosophy21 May 2021
- 3The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification21 Oct 2025
Introduction produced automatically from the 26 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 26 videos
Cycle 14The return of fascism
4 Feb 2026What is rightly called fascism, and how can we recognize its return today?
Cycle 14The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification
21 Oct 2025Why, in the media uproar, is the history linking Atlanticist capitalism to Nazism and to the present danger of war passed over in silence?
Cycle 13Naturalist ideology: answers to questions
25 Jul 2025What does money reveal about desire and self-knowledge, and why speak of a dialectic of matter rather than a dialectic of nature?
Cycle 13The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!
17 Dec 2024What is evil, if one starts from Rousseau's distinction between the state of nature and the civil state?
Cycle 11“Speech is the best and the worst of things” (Aesop)
19 Oct 2022In what sense is speech "the best and the worst of things," and how does this contradiction reappear in Hegel's Greater Logic and in the relation between philosophy and history?
Cycle 10#12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge
7 Apr 2022How can we think the dialectic between the security of the hinterland and the peril of the edge, and what does it mean to stand on a "perpetuated edge"?
Cycle 10#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)
24 Mar 2022How should one respond to those who accuse Dominique Pagani of anti-Americanism and complacency toward Putin, and what does the media unanimism on the war in Ukraine reveal?
Questions and answersPanzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature (Heidegger, Descartes)
5 Mar 2022What does Heidegger have in mind when he traces the atomic bomb back to Descartes's cogito, and what does the ideological use of the word "nature" conceal?
Cycle 10#10.7 “Postmodern” eco-petty-Nazism: Plato's Gorgias
23 Dec 2021Why does "post-modern" thought, which claims descent from Nietzsche, deify nature and despise equality merely repeat the thesis of Callicles in Plato's Gorgias?
Questions and answersHeidegger, or panzer-philosophy
21 May 2021Why is Heidegger "the most Nazi of the great philosophers," and what does Dominique Pagani reproach him for above all?
Musicosophie#10 The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner
18 Jan 2021Why was the best German music, that of Wagner in particular, best conducted and expressed by Jews whom Germany drove out?
Musicosophie#1 Schubert and the master singers
3 Dec 2020Why begin a history of music with its middle, with Schubert and the second act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger?
Cycle 9.1#7 Answers to questions (continued)
3 Dec 2020How should one answer public questions on Nazism and esotericism, contemporary music, ontology in Marx, orbital resonance and a variant of Capital, and how to announce next semester's program?
At the Tropiques bookshopArendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought
24 Sept 2020What relation unites Arendt's conception of Nazism and totalitarianism with Heidegger's conception of thought, and how has this relation served to exonerate Heidegger and Schmitt?
Cycle 7#7 Harnessed to confinitude
5 May 2020What does the ongoing crisis reveal, read through Marx's dialectic and through the ideology of Heidegger, Jünger and Nietzsche documented by Domenico Losurdo?
Cycle 6#6.6 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism
29 Mar 2020Why does the access to absolute knowledge in modernity symmetrically engender the temptation of an absolute non-knowledge, which leads as far as Nazism?
Cycle 6#6.5 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism
19 Feb 2020How does the modern stage of the relation between substance and subject, where absolute knowledge becomes possible, shed light both on the logic of the subject and on the reconstitution of Nazism?
Cycle 6#6.4 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism
30 Jan 2020How does the logic of the subject, grounded in recognition, allow us to identify the reconstitution of Nazism in contemporary management and neoliberalism?
Cycle 6#6.3 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism
8 Jan 2020How does the relationship between substance and subject, which converge in Antiquity and diverge in modern times, shed light on the reactionary attempt, up to Nazism, to restore "the compact solidity of being"?
Cycle 6#6.2 The logic of the subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism
3 Dec 2019In what way does a logic of the subject allow us to think and combat the current reconstitution of Nazism, whose common ground is naturalism?
Cycle 6#6.1 Prelude: Lacan, “Function and field of speech and language”
10 Nov 2019How do the death drive and the compulsion to repeat, as read in Freud and Lacan, shed light on the logic of the subject and on the reconstitution of Nazism?
Cycle 6#6.1 The logic of the subject
23 Oct 2019What is a logic proper to the subject, which exists only for, by and in a subject, and how does it differ from the logic of objects?
Play ▷II PauseMichel Foucault
2 May 2019What is the value of Michel Foucault's project, in his 1966 interview, of an ethnology of our own knowledge that announces the end of philosophy and the death of man?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityEducation: can beauty be learned?
20 Jul 2018Is beauty a matter of individual taste, or can it be learned through an education that brings us into contact with works of art?
A Philosophical AlphabetY for Yonville
8 Jan 2015How can one distinguish the imaginary from illusion, and what is the place of the imaginary in creation and in politics?
A Philosophical AlphabetU for Übermensch
4 Jan 2015What does Nietzsche's notion of the superman cover, and what does it become when related to the notion of the subhuman?