The videos
330 videos. 14 workshop seasons, from 2014 to today. Around them, series (Musicosophie, the podcast, the Alphabet, Clouscard…) and talks.
Sessions are in French. YouTube offers automatic English subtitles (CC › Auto-translate).
The 21 sessions of seasons 1 to 3 are also a podcast: Deezer · Spotify
The seasons, from the latest to the first
Seasons 5 and 9 each have two cycles.
- Season14
Atlanticist renazification
then language and thought, from Plato to Copernicus and Lenin
A “new cycle: Atlanticist renazification”, opened in October 2025 (the silences of media uproar, the return of fascism, “their Europe”), then language and thought: the Lavoisier case, Plato and Aristotle, from Copernicus to Lenin.
6 sessions - Season13
Evil
from the essence of evil to naturalist ideology
Illness, misfortune, evil; “Evil, or the non-knowledge of oneself”; the essence of evil, the innocence of nature and the horror of naturalism; then imaginary identity, naturalist ideology, the State and the State apparatus.
11 sessions - Season12
The elusive identity
from secularism to the quest for the Grail
“I is another”, or contradictory identity, the elusive identity; the massacre of the Innocents, secularism, the quest for the Grail, redemption, grace; Clouscard today, and the aftermath of the summer 2024 elections.
14 sessions - Season11
Worldliness in Clouscard
and the dialectics of hesitation and decision
The subject in Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire, Clouscard and the problem of Socrates, the dialectics of hesitation and decision (Siegfried and Perceval), then the cycle “Worldliness in Clouscard”, from April to September 2023.
17 sessions - Season10
Femininity and Community
A cycle devoted to explaining and developing Dominique Pagani’s book Féminité et communauté chez Hegel (Delga), on “the relation of aesthetics to politics in the System”; then, from January to July 2022: philosophising under threat, Ukraine, from Kafka to Proust, caves of yesterday and today, Nietzsche, Clouscard.
16 sessions - Season9.2
How Can Sciences of History Be Real?
Wednesday sessions, from January to summer 2021: ‘hard’ sciences and sciences of history, Wagner’s Ring, ‘from signal to sign’, ‘artificial intelligence’ with Christophe Denis, Nerval and Baudelaire.
14 sessions - Season9.1
The Benefits and Harms of Amnesia and Anamnesis
individual and/or collective
Wednesday sessions, October to December 2020: Mnemosyne, from mythos to logos — Rousseau, Hesiod, Wagner, Proust, the Mandinka griot — and answers to the audience’s questions.
11 sessions - Season8
Back to the Logics of the Subject
Live with you
The 2020 sessions return to the logics of the subject: Kant, Hegel, Pascal, Hugo, Baudelaire, aesthetics, with guests (Art Går Bra, Alexandra Tricottet).
8 sessions - Season7
Harnessed to Confinitude
During the 2020 lockdown, twice-weekly meetings: Baudelaire, Senancour, Nietzsche, Nerval, Hölderlin, Hegel, Losurdo, Marx…
9 sessions - Season6
The Logic of the Subject and the Reconstruction of Nazism
“Il court, il court, le sujet…”: from primary-school grammar (“Who is it that…?”) to Descartes, Hegel and Lacan, a logic of the subject facing the Nazism being rebuilt before our eyes.
7 sessions - Season5.2
Nature or Landscape?
Second term of the season: after revolutionary thought, an attempt to answer the question “Nature or landscape?”, with readings by Grégory Protche (Chateaubriand, Rousseau).
7 sessions - Season5.1
Revolutionary Thought, from Rousseau to Lenin
“Revolutionary thought along the sequence that runs from Rousseau to Lenin by way of Kant, Hegel and Marx”, followed by answers to the audience’s questions.
8 sessions - Season4
The Philosopher’s Odyssey: Nerval’s Angélique
Angélique, the first of Nerval’s Filles du feu, read closely according to what Dominique Pagani calls the “griot method”.
11 sessions - Season3
The Philosopher’s Odyssey: from Ulysses to Daedalus
From repetition to liberation? The philosopher’s journey, from Ulysses to Daedalus.
6 sessions - Season2
Between Crisis and War: Philosophising?
Year two
The problem of language, communication in modern times, Baudelaire’s “La cloche fêlée”: what do we call modernity? Filmed with the help of Les Films de l’an 2.
8 sessions - Season1
Between Crisis and War: Philosophising?
Year one
The first workshops: what philosophy is, nature and freedom, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant. Video #1.1 was lost; session #1.2 goes back over the basics.
7 sessions
Series
Interviews, an alphabet, a history of music, readings on the spot: other formats, other ways in.
The book, session by session
The text of the book published by Delga, with Dominique Pagani's video commentary.
2 sessionsSeriesIntroduction to the workshops
2020Two interviews with Samuel Zarka as a way into Dominique Pagani’s thought: the matrix scandal, then Nerval’s Ariadne’s thread.
18 sessionsSeriesMusicosophie
A history of music by Dominique Pagani: conversations with Aymeric Monville, which are to form the basis of a book published by Delga.
11 sessionsSeriesPagani Parle Musique
2022Dominique Pagani’s podcast, released weekly in spring and summer 2022: Mozart, Mulligan, Tchaikovsky, from Bach to the Pygmies, John Lewis, Beethoven, Bartók, Wagner, Nietzsche, Schubert.
14 sessionsSeriesQuestions and answers
2021–2022Dominique Pagani’s answers to questions from the audience: Wagner and his interpreters, balance in nature, Heidegger, a chapter of Marx written by Hegel, modal and tonal music, feminism, security…
6 sessionsSeriesReadings on the spot
2023–2026Dominique Pagani reads and comments on a text: Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Aragon, Kleist, Rimbaud, from Plato to Proust.
4 sessionsSeriesAnalytical Reveries
Mignon, or the song of silence; Lenin, or the wings of dream; the case of Nerval: nomad or settler?
26 sessionsSeriesA Philosophical Alphabet
2015From Antigone to Zero, an alphabet made with friends from the Saint-Dizier Popular University.
13 sessionsSeriesOn Michel Clouscard
All the talks on Michel Clouscard, including the documentary “Everything’s allowed, but nothing is possible!” (Delga), also available with English subtitles.
2 sessionsSeriesPlay ▷II Pause
Made by Aliocha: Dominique Pagani analyses a video on the spot, with no prior information about the video or the speaker.
7 sessionsSeriesHegel & Marx on the Beach
2012The summer workshops organised by Dominique Mazuet: Hegel in five episodes, Marx in two.
3 sessionsSeriesWhat Is to Be Done?
2011“Answering the call of the rebellious generations, Dominique Pagani came out of his cave”, a year before the tercentenary of Rousseau’s birth: an anthropology of labour value.
6 sessionsSeriesInterviews for L’Affranchi
A series of interviews conducted by Loïc Chaigneau, founder of the IHT: the European Union, Clouscard, Rousseau, libertarian liberalism.
7 sessionsSeriesPrefaces and Afterwords
Prefaces and afterwords presented on video. The texts themselves are in the Writings section.
Beyond the workshops
At the Tropiques bookshop, at the Saint-Dizier Popular University, on other channels, and a few films.
17 sessionsTalksAt the Tropiques bookshop
Dominique Pagani’s talks at the Tropiques bookshop: book launches, tributes to Domenico Losurdo and Jacques D’Hondt, Hegel and the yellow vests, Adotevi…
10 sessionsTalksSaint-Dizier Popular University
Lectures at the Saint-Dizier Popular University: money, work, myth, history, beauty…
13 sessionsTalksOn other channels
Interviews and lectures published on other YouTube channels.
11 sessionsTalksOther videos
Meetings, films and readings, including “Le choc des cultures”, K. Souleymane’s film about the Niamey music-training centre Dominique Pagani set up in Niger, and Aliocha’s film “La fausse note”.
Season 14From Copernicus to Lenin: Revolution!
28 Aug 2026How did discourse on nature become scientific, and why must we break with empiricism to understand it?
Readings on the spotFrom Plato to Proust - Readings on the Spot
6 Jul 2026What does amorous desire seek through the body and the gaze: someone or something?
Jeunesse du MondeNEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI
23 May 2026Do Michel Clouscard's theses in Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir still make it possible to understand libertarian liberalism, neofascism, and today's revolutionary subject?
Jeunesse du MondeMALI: Dominique PAGANI REACTS to Emmanuel MACRON's remarks at the Africa Forward summit
16 May 2026What does Emmanuel Macron's discourse on French failure in Mali conceal, and where do the rebellion and the crisis in the Sahel come from?
Season 14The foundations of the Platonic and Aristotelian distinction
5 May 2026What distinguishes Plato from Aristotle, the two poles between which the history of philosophy has oscillated for 2500 years?
Season 14Language and thought: The case of Lavoisier
13 Apr 2026What distinguishes philosophy from other fields of knowledge, and why is its relation to language essential to it?
Season 14Their "Europe" means war.
28 Feb 2026What is meant by fascism today, and why is war its worst expression?
Season 14The return of fascism
4 Feb 2026What is rightly called fascism, and how can we recognize its return today?
Season 14The silences of the media uproar - new cycle: 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?
Season 13STATE AND STATE APPARATUS - The conflict between public and private
29 Aug 2025Why must the State, understood as general will, be distinguished from the State apparatus that oppresses?
Season 13The repression of the subject in bourgeois civil society
9 Aug 2025What do money, neopositivism, and bourgeois civil society have in common in the repression of the subject and self-knowledge?
Season 13Naturalist ideology / Answers to questions - Dominique Pagani
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?
Readings on the spotOUR FORMER SAVAGERY? - An impromptu reading of an Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud
13 Jun 2025What does the question "Est-ce ancienne sauvagerie qu'on pardonne ?" mean in Rimbaud's "Mouvement," posed before a young couple in the midst of a hymn to industrial modernity?
Season 13Flagrante Delights
27 May 2025What do perfumes, even the foul-smelling ones, teach us about sublimation, about modernity, and about man caught between the indeterminate and the determinate?
Season 13Imaginary identity
15 May 2025Is identity a substance, or must it be converted into relation and function?
Le Précepteur[INTERVIEW] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard and the betrayal of May 68
7 Feb 2025What is libertarian liberalism according to Michel Clouscard, and why does May 68 mark its birth?
Season 13On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
6 Feb 2025Why were the Khmer Rouge, communists, hostile to the Soviets, and what does their genocide reveal about the essence of evil?
Season 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?
Season 13Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self
2 Dec 2024Why can the essence of evil be defined as lying, that is, as a privation of self-knowledge?
dominique bintou"Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning", with Dominique Pagani
2 Dec 2024Why is Napoleon of interest to philosophy, and what does Hegel's concept of the cunning of reason show about him?
Season 13The eternal return… of the death camps?
13 Oct 2024If everything is determined and returns eternally, is philosophy, which asks the question "what must I do?", still possible, and can one still deliver a message against evil?
Season 13Sickness, misfortune, evil
20 Sept 2024How is evil, under the figures of misfortune, illness and suffering, linked to autumn and finitude, and how can it be overcome?
Season 13Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle
2 Sept 2024How does Clouscard's thought, read from Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes and its relation to Rousseau, account for the present situation?
Season 12TOO LATE?
14 Aug 2024Is it already too late to prevent the war waged by Atlanticist imperialism from becoming a world conflict?
Season 12After the vote - Entering a zone of turbulence
11 Jul 2024The day after the legislative elections, what fascism are we talking about, and how can it be identified through a concrete analysis of our era?
Season 12For a "fresh and joyful" apocalypse?
24 Jun 2024What is this far right whose rise surprises everyone, and what political divide must be set against it in the face of the danger of war?
Season 12The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present
4 Jun 2024Why does the fixation on the mother, which the second act of Parsifal stages, make the past be lived as a present, and how does this illusion concern modernity?
Season 12From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject
30 May 2024What does the separation of the Grail and the spear mean in the second act of Parsifal, and how can their reunion be understood as the passage from substance to subject?
Season 12Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire - Clouscard, as relevant as ever (cf. Macron's ultra-warmongering remarks)
2 May 2024What does Michel Clouscard denounce in Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir: desire and consumption, or the discourse claiming that the working class wallowed in the "consumer society"?
Season 12Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning?
21 Apr 2024What does the final formula of Parsifal, "Redemption to the redeemer," mean: does redemption close the cycle or set it going again?
Season 12The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?
1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, as Wagner takes it up again in Parsifal, is it a Christian piety or a sacrilegious work?
Café marxisteSAHELIAN AFRICA AND IMPERIALISM: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - with Dominique PAGANI
23 Mar 2024What is today the dominant element exploiting the Sahelian Africa, and why must it be called imperialism rather than colonialism?
Season 12Clouscard by you - Answers to your questions
28 Feb 2024What does the critique of the distinction according to Bourdieu by Henri Lefebvre, and more broadly the work of Clouscard, teach us about how to think differences, relativism and determinism?
Season 12Secularism, the truth of religion?
18 Feb 2024In what sense can secularism be called the "truth" of religion, that is, what accomplishes it by abolishing it?
Season 12I am not who you think I am - The elusive identity
4 Jan 2024How can the notions of identity, indeterminacy and negativity, which lie at the heart of internal determination, be made concrete?
Season 12Birth and carnage - The Massacre of the Innocents
22 Dec 2023What is dialectic, if it hinges on the internal contradiction of a subject between opposed and mutually necessary moments?
PaduTeamDOMINIQUE PAGANI TAKES ME TO TASK OVER LOÏC CHAIGNEAU!!
21 Dec 2023Does the right-left divide still make sense, and how does Dominique Pagani differ from Loïc Chaigneau?
Season 12"I is another", or contradictory identity
12 Dec 2023How can we think the contradiction within the subject, the negativity immanent to the self, and why do we repress it?
Season 12Neither left nor right? Islamo-leftism?
17 Oct 2023What does the opposition between left and right mean today, and what does the term "Islamo-leftism" conceal?
Readings on the spotKleist "On the Marionette Theatre" - Pagani - Readings on the Spot
29 Sept 2023Why, according to Kleist, does grace appear only in the marionette or in god, and never in the man who reflects?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom??
3 Sept 2023What is the object of human desire in our modernity, and who is its subject?
Season 11NIGER SPECIAL: Should we "blacken the corpses"?
7 Aug 2023What does the coup in Niger reveal about the situation in the Sahel and about the way Western powers wage their wars while managing public opinion?
Readings on the spotAragon "The Paris Peasant Sings" - Readings on the Spot
5 Aug 2023What does Aragon's "Le Paysan de Paris chante" say about working-class Paris and demonstrations, and how does this poem from the Resistance connect with current events?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard - The world as "cunning of reason"
22 Jul 2023How can reason, which has essence but not existence, produce a world, and why must it resort to cunning for this?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard - The clash of worlds?
9 Jul 2023How can we think the ambivalence of the world, between enjoyment and negativity, when two worlds collide, as in the colonial encounter between Africa and the school of the white men?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative
29 Jun 2023How does the positivity of the negative, read in a poem by Aragon and in the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, shed light on Clouscard's concept of worldliness and the critique of neopositivism?
PaduTeamPHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: E for ENFANCE (CHILDHOOD)
4 Jun 2023What do childhood, Émile and Ermenonville teach us about Rousseau, and why is the island the symbol without which he cannot be understood?
dominique bintouDominique Pagani: From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment
29 May 2023How does modernity shift the balance between pleasure and happiness, and what place do worldliness, code and artifice hold in it?
PaduTeamPHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: D for DESIRE
29 May 2023What place and what content should be given to desire, which philosophy has never stopped thinking about, in today's society?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all
18 May 2023Why does mondanité, in Clouscard, not reduce to "bling-bling", and what does the world become when the privileges of a few are extended to all?
Season 11Worldliness in Clouscard, or "The dominant ideology"
26 Apr 2023What does the world mean, and worldliness in Clouscard's sense, between the happiness of being in the world and the lie of the world that keeps the dominated under the ideology of the dominant?
Communistes FrançaisInterview with Dominique Pagani, praxis and psyche
27 Mar 2023How did Rousseau, first of all, unite praxis and psyche, and how does this synthesis continue in revolutionary thought, from Hegel and Marx to Clouscard?
PaduTeamPHILOSOPHY with PAGANI: A for ANTIGONE
20 Mar 2023Is Antigone the figure of the individual who opposes the state?
Season 11A SPRINGTIME OF THE PEOPLES?
18 Mar 2023Does poetic speech proceed from the immediate intuition of genius or from a rigor that proceeds by mediations?
Season 11War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism
3 Mar 2023What should be understood by liberal-libertarianism, and how does the confusion between the State and the State apparatus prepare the return of fascism and war?
Season 11Roots or migration? From analytical reverie to current events, from Hölderlin to the war
17 Feb 2023Between roots and migration, between the measure of the inhabited place and the pull of the infinite, how does man find his place, while war looms?
Readings on the spotNietzsche, or the Great Ninny - Readings on the Spot
7 Feb 2023What do two paragraphs of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil reveal about the music to come and the German soul?
Readings on the spotMallarmé, or class struggle on the lawn - Readings on the Spot
31 Jan 2023How does Mallarmé, a poet reputed to be aristocratic and hermetic, stage the class struggle and the condition of the working class in "Conflit"?
Season 11Beware of misreadings!! Clouscard and the ideology of desire, in homage to Le Précepteur
14 Jan 2023Does Clouscard put desire itself on trial, or the ideology of desire?
On Michel ClouscardWhy is Clouscard indispensable? (ENG SUBTITLES) And his translation into English too!
3 Jan 2023Why is Michel Clouscard's work indispensable, and why must it be translated into English?
Season 11Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval
12 Dec 2022How do Perceval, Parsifal and Siegfried figure hesitation, fascinated by sight or by hearing, and the passage to decision?
Season 11THE APORIAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
23 Nov 2022Can we fix a threshold where one ceases to be animal and becomes man, or must man be thought as the very movement of this passage?
Season 11Dialectics of hesitation and decision
13 Nov 2022Why is hesitation, as opposed to decision, at the very origin of philosophy, and how does it touch on the problem of language?
Season 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?
Season 11Clouscard and the problem of Socrates
14 Oct 2022How, starting from ordinary ideological language, do we arrive at the necessity of the concept?
Season 11And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire
28 Sept 2022How can philosophy, which hesitates between the rigor of mathematics and the language of poetry, take the subject into account?
Pagani Parle MusiqueSCHUBERT - THE DIVINE CAPTIVES • Pagani Parle Musique
3 Aug 2022How does music enter into time only to leave it, bringing back the past to the point of touching a kind of eternity?
Pagani Parle MusiqueNIETZSCHE - NO PITY FOR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique
27 Jul 2022Why does Nietzsche, after condemning Parsifal as a Christian betrayal of the Greek ideal, recognize in its music the truth he had refused?
Pagani Parle MusiqueWAGNER - THE TRUTH OF PURE MUSIC • Pagani Parle Musique
20 Jul 2022What does music say when it says nothing, and how does instrumental music express what words dare not say?
Upsd 52From Plato to world revolution, by Dominique Pagani
14 Jul 2022In what way is the Socratic initiative the origin of a revolution whose effects are not yet exhausted?
Pagani Parle MusiqueBARTÓK - THE UNHEARD-OF SOUND • Pagani Parle Musique
13 Jul 2022By what paths does contemporary classical music become avant-garde, and how does Bartók renew it through popular music?
Questions and answersSecurity: Is it conservatism or Revolution? - Dominique Pagani
12 Jul 2022Is security a matter of conservatism or of revolution?
Season 10#16 Michel Clouscard: "There are no holidays in the concept!" - Dominique Pagani
7 Jul 2022What does Clouscard's quip "there are no vacations in the concept" mean, and how does philosophy make problematic habitual concepts such as "climate disruption" or "the West"?
Pagani Parle MusiqueTIPSY BEETHOVEN! • Pagani Parle Musique
6 Jul 2022How does the scherzo of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio unite popular and learned music?
Pagani Parle MusiqueJOHN LEWIS - CLASSICAL OR JAZZ? • Pagani Parle Musique
29 Jun 2022Does John Lewis's music belong to classical or to jazz, and is jazz not the true classical music of the twentieth century?
Season 10#15 Nietzsche: Philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions
23 Jun 2022What place does music occupy between the mathematician, the poet and the philosopher, and what good use can be made of Nietzsche, the philosopher who spoke most of music?
Pagani Parle MusiqueFROM BACH TO THE PYGMIES • Pagani Parle Musique
22 Jun 2022Do the common divisions between tonal and modal music, learned and popular, classical and jazz hold up to scrutiny?
Pagani Parle MusiqueTCHAIKOVSKY - FROM THE STEPPES TO THE MIDWEST • Pagani Parle Musique
15 Jun 2022What is a concerto, and what does the slow movement of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 reveal about Russian music?
Season 10#14 Caves of Yesterday and Today - From Plato to modernity
10 Jun 2022What remains invariant, beneath their apparent discontinuity, in Dominique Pagani's talks?
Pagani Parle MusiqueFREE GOLD FOR EVERYONE - MULLIGAN • Pagani Parle Musique
8 Jun 2022How should one listen to a baritone saxophone solo against a big band, using the landmarks of jazz history and the range of the instruments?
Pagani Parle MusiquePOLYMORPHOUSLY PERVERSE MOZART • Pagani Parle Musique
1 Jun 2022How does Mozart's music unite libertinism and generosity, comedy and true emotion, gaiety and melancholy?
Pagani Parle MusiquePagani Parle Musique • Introduction to the podcast
23 May 2022What can we expect from speaking about music, and why deprive young people of music they are being denied?
Questions and answersDominique Pagani - Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics
20 May 2022Why is romanticism ambivalent between aesthetics and politics, and in what sense are surface, reflection and landscape more profound than the depths?
Season 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"?
Season 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?
Le Gros Rouge Qui TâcheDominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poetry and politics
19 Mar 2022How can we read Hölderlin, given his contradictory receptions, and what does his poetry matter to communist militants?
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?
Season 10#10 UKRAINE: From the problem of "Edges" to the unleashing of war
24 Feb 2022What does the notion of edge, border and march teach us about the war that breaks out in Ukraine?
Season 10#9 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION: Art, seen from here or from the other side?
10 Feb 2022How does art pass, in Hegel's aesthetics, from the presence of the sacred to representation, and what relation does this movement of interiorization bear to the political?
Questions and answersThe feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner
6 Feb 2022Are femininity and feminism compatible or different?
Season 10#8 Philosophising under threat
27 Jan 2022What does the geopolitical situation in eastern Europe and the Sahel reveal about the crisis of capitalism and the danger of war?
Season 1010#7 "Post-modern" 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?
Season 1010#6 War and Peace: "The death drives advance in silence..." (Freud)
8 Dec 2021Why is the danger of war, from the Sahel to the Russian-Ukrainian border, wrapped in silence, and what does this silence reveal, in the sense that "the death drives progress in silence"?
Season 1010#5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last...
24 Nov 2021Why does Hegel make Antigone's tragedy the "supreme ethical opposition," to the point of granting it a value that escapes its own era?
Questions and answersLeft-washing: Are the woke the most asleep?
17 Nov 2021Why does the societal left that calls itself "woke" play into the hands of the right, and how can a language common to the human tribe be recovered?
Season 1010#4 From Lascaux to modern music, the permanence of the political stakes in aesthetics
3 Nov 2021Why does aesthetics remain tied to a political stake in Hegel, and why does the tragedy of Antigone still hold for the modern world?
Season 1010#3 Freeze-frame, or the primal scene
20 Oct 2021
Season 1010#2 Dialectics of identity and difference
6 Oct 2021What relation, and what hierarchy, does Hegel establish between aesthetics and politics, based on the opposition between the family and the city embodied by Antigone?
Analytical Reveries#4 Nomad and sedentary - The case of Nerval
4 Oct 2021Does the apparent randomness of Nerval's wanderings in Promenades et souvenirs conceal a necessity, that of mourning the mother and returning to origins?
Season 1010#1 The eternal irony of the community
22 Sept 2021What does Hegel's formula "this femininity, eternal irony of the community" mean, and why is the tension between family and city it designates still relevant today?
Season 10Presentation of the 2021/2022 workshops - Association membership
20 Sept 2021What is the program of the philosophy workshops for the 2021-2022 season?
Questions and answersBEING BORN HUMAN IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE HUMAN • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani
19 Jul 2021In what way, in man, does code precede being?
On Michel ClouscardEVERYTHING'S ALLOWED, BUT NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68, French Theory & Capitalism
14 Jul 2021How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and May 68, summed up in the formula "everything's allowed, but nothing is possible"?
On Michel ClouscardEVERYTHING IS ALLOWED, NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68 and the capitalism of seduction
14 Jul 2021How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and revealed by May 68, summed up in the formula "everything is permitted, but nothing is possible"?
Season 9.29 #24 "Ruled like music paper!" • Nerval • Baudelaire • Part 2
30 Jun 2021What grounds the determinability that the symbolic order brings out in Nerval's texts, and how does Nerval get out of the repetition of his fantasy?
Season 9.29 #23 "Ruled like music paper!" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss
9 Jun 2021How can it be shown that the historical sciences have an object as rigorously determinable as that of the natural sciences?
Analytical Reveries#3 Nomad or sedentary? - The case of Nerval
6 Jun 2021Where would we want to remain: what does the quest for lodging, in Nerval's Promenades et Souvenirs, becoming a quest for a voice, reveal?
Season 9.29 #22 Science and/or philosophy of "artificial intelligence" - Part 2
27 May 2021What distinguishes man from an "intelligent" machine, and how do debates on artificial intelligence take up problems already posed by Descartes?
Questions and answersFrom the lost voice to the path of modernity • From modal music to tonal music • D Pagani
23 May 2021How does the passage from modal music to tonal music, starting with the legend of Paul the Deacon's "lost voice," mark the West's entry into modernity?
Questions and answersA chapter of Marx written by Hegel • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani
22 May 2021How does Hegel, in his first philosophy of spirit, make the tool a power of spirit, and how does he draw from this an analysis of the division of labor, money, and civil society?
Questions and answersHeidegger, or Panzer Philosophy • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani
21 May 2021Why is Heidegger "the most Nazi of the great philosophers," and what does Dominique Pagani reproach him for above all?
Questions and answersCynicism of the extreme centre or epistemic heroism? The dialectic of the middle • Dominique Pagani
20 May 2021What is the relation between the consciousness of consciousness and the victory of bourgeois materialist cynicism, and what does the category of the milieu reveal?
Season 9.29 #21 Science and/or philosophy of "Artificial Intelligence"
12 May 2021What should be understood by "artificial intelligence," and what separates a machine that simulates intelligence from a being who speaks, doubts, and sets itself ends?
Questions and answersMy eco-cabin in the ZAD: autonomy or alienation? • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani
30 Apr 2021Is the autonomy claimed today by those who go off to live in nature a freedom or a way of freeing oneself from humanity?
Season 9.29 #20 From SIGNAL to SIGN • Einstein
28 Apr 2021How can one cross the abyss between the natural sciences and the historical sciences, and how is it that statements drawn from language alone apply to the world?
Analytical Reveries#2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams
18 Apr 2021Under what condition can a revolutionary dream, and what does this dream teach us about the place of the subject and of finality in history?
Season 9.29 #19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation • Part 2
14 Apr 2021How does the last act of Twilight of the Gods move from the cyclical repetition of myth to a woman's knowledge and the reign of man?
Analytical Reveries#1 Mignon, or the song of silence
7 Apr 2021What silent element links texts that are never brought together: the sound coming from the castle in Kafka, Mignon's song in Goethe, and the eternal feminine as commented on by Wagner?
Season 9.29 #18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation
3 Apr 2021How does Wagner's Twilight of the Gods move from the circular time of fate, in which everything repeats, to the freedom of the world of men?
Questions and answersWagner and his interpreters, Approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani
31 Mar 2021How should one answer public questions on interpretations of Wagner's Ring, on how to enter Clouscard's work, on political philosophy, and on what Marx brings to the reading of Phèdre?
Questions and answers"Red-browns", "decolonial": Should we use the dominant language? • Philosophical Q&A • Pagani
31 Mar 2021Should we take up the notions of "red-brown" and "decolonial" produced by dominant ideology, and what is lost when the subject is eliminated in the human sciences?
Questions and answersA balance in nature? • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani
31 Mar 2021Is there a balance in nature that man has come to disturb, or does this idea project the ideology of the market onto nature?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 18. What is musical in music
25 Mar 2021What is musical in music?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 17. Interpretation
25 Mar 2021What does it mean to interpret a musical work, between improvisation, execution and the restitution of the composer's thought?
Season 9.29 #17 The geopolitical metaphor • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani
17 Mar 2021Under what conditions is a discourse scientific, and how does science turn into scientism when applied to the human world?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 16. Programme music / Pure music
10 Mar 2021Does the distinction between pure music and program music hold, and what does it reveal about modernity?
Season 9.29 #16 How can sciences of history be real?
4 Mar 2021How can sciences of history be real, and how has the relation of the sciences to philosophy evolved since Aristotle's philosophical imperialism?
Season 9.29 #15 How can sciences of history be real?
18 Feb 2021How does a mythic narrative such as Wagner's Ring, taken at its midpoint, reveal a rigorous logic, an "algebra" of gold and love, that the sciences of history and culture can bring out?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 15. Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music
9 Feb 2021What founds, since Plato, the complicity between music and philosophy?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 14. Mozart once more
7 Feb 2021Why does Mozart's music, situated in the shift from the Ancien Régime to the new world, express that happiness which is, according to Saint-Just, a new idea in Europe?
Season 9.29 #14 How can sciences of history be real?
5 Feb 2021How can sciences of history be real, if the determinism of the natural sciences seems to exclude freedom?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 13. Mozart restored
2 Feb 2021What does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?
Season 9.29 #13 How can sciences of history be real?
29 Jan 2021How can sciences of history have a rigor with nothing to envy in the hard sciences, and what does Wagner's Das Rheingold show on this subject?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 12. Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner
28 Jan 2021What does the conflict between Nietzsche and Wagner reveal, once we reread Nietzsche's texts while listening to the music?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 11. Modal and tonal music
24 Jan 2021Why did tonal music, a recent exception on a musically modal planet, appear and develop so quickly in what is called the West?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 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?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityThe World Before, The World After - Part 2
16 Jan 2021How should the "world after" the Covid crisis be judged, and under what conditions can one still speak of progress?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityThe World Before, The World After - Part 1
16 Jan 2021What separates a "world before" from a "world after", and is the health crisis a revolution or the acceleration of trends already at work?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 9. Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata
15 Jan 2021How can a literary text convey what is heard in music, and what do Walt's dream in Jean-Paul and Vinteuil's little phrase in Proust reveal?
Season 9.29 #12 How can sciences of history be real?
14 Jan 2021How can understanding, the faculty of the sciences and of the "if… then," axiologically neutral, be put to the service of evil, and how does Wagner's Das Rheingold show this?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 8. Happiness and unhappiness in music
11 Jan 2021Why does the history of music make happy and morbid musics alternate, and what is the happiness that they express?
Season 9.29 #11 How can sciences of history be real?
7 Jan 2021How can sciences of history, that is, sciences of the human subject, attain a rigor really comparable to that of the sciences of nature?
Season 9.1#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
24 Dec 2020Should anamnesis be pushed as far as our oldest vulnerability, or should it be forgotten in order to open onto a genuine future?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 7. The Greeks, myth and music
17 Dec 2020Why do Greek art, myth, and music, tied to a past that is gone, still give us aesthetic pleasure?
Season 9.1#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
17 Dec 2020Can we show that a logic is at work in human affairs, and what role do memory, forgetting, and anamnesis play in Phèdre's tragic confession?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 6. The Jazz Variation... by Beethoven
15 Dec 2020What distinguishes genre from form in music, and why is the so-called "jazz variation" of Beethoven's opus 111 not jazz?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 5. Happiness versus the death drive in music
11 Dec 2020How does modern music, since Beethoven, oscillate between the popular demand for happiness and the romantic fascination with the death drive?
Season 9.1#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
10 Dec 2020Why does the nostalgia for a lost substance found every reactionary ideology, and what does the ambivalence of memory and language reveal?
Season 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?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 4. Sound ghettos
3 Dec 2020How does the "people" music born in the 1950s enclose young people worldwide in sound ghettos, and how can one escape it?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 3. What is called modern music?
3 Dec 2020What do we call modern music?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music
3 Dec 2020Is the divorce between scholarly music and popular music that Lévi-Strauss notes in contemporary music a new symptom, and how can one think the union of speech and music up to the music of the future?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 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?
Season 9.1#6 Answers to questions
30 Nov 2020Is desire only a way of not thinking about death, and freedom a mere pretext for avoiding it?
Season 9.1#6 Presentation of the dominiquepagani.fr website
26 Nov 2020How does the site dominiquepagani.fr organize access to the workshops, publications, texts, and musical resources?
Other videosBetween sea and mountain, the standing stones of Valinco (The Corsican Neolithic)
24 Nov 2020What do the statue-menhirs of the Valinco gulf, raised between sea and mountain, signify?
Season 9.1#5 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
19 Nov 2020Why is human memory inseparable from forgetting, and how does the consciousness of death mean that 'the echo changes'?
Season 9.1#4 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
13 Nov 2020How does memory, which retains and names, confront the indeterminacy of origins, and how can one memory overdetermine others?
Season 9.1#3 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
6 Nov 2020How do anamnesis and amnesia, individual and collective, work upon memory, and what does it mean for memory to be overdetermined?
Introduction to the workshopsDominique Pagani : peut-on parler sans détours ?
24 Oct 2020
Season 9.1#2 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
23 Oct 2020Why can memory, which Greek myth conflates with language in the figure of Mnemosyne, not go without forgetting?
Season 9.1#1 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
8 Oct 2020Is memory the condition of happiness and identity, or is forgetting its condition instead?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things (3): The dictatorship of the bobotariat
6 Oct 2020Is political ecology anything other than the aesthetic surface of dominant liberal ideology?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things (2): Ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?
5 Oct 2020Why is ecologism a class ideology of capitalism, and what does the reference to Foucault's Les Mots et les choses in the title of the book Les Veaux et les choses mean?
Prefaces and AfterwordsEcologism is the opium of the beautiful people: Preface to Dominique Mazuet's book "Of Calves and Things"
4 Oct 2020What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things, preface by Dominique Pagani
4 Oct 2020What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?
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?
Season 8#16 • Return to the logics of the subject
30 Jul 2020What becomes of art once aesthetic religion has disappeared, and what do we, moderns, gain from this loss?
Season 8#15 • Return to the logics of the subject
23 Jul 2020What does the confinement of the era reveal, and what form of solidarity, camaraderie or community, allows us to face it?
Season 8#14 • Return to the logics of the subject
17 Jul 2020How does the Norwegian collective Alt går bra articulate aesthetics and politics, from Diogenes' cynical cosmopolitanism to the recognition of popular art?
Season 8#13 • Return to the logics of the subject
9 Jul 2020What does Kant's reflective judgment teach us about the relation between the beautiful object and the subject's desire, and how far can art lead?
Season 8#12 • Return to the logics of the subject
2 Jul 2020Why has aesthetics become a necessary part of the corpus of philosophy?
Season 8#11 • Return to the logics of the subject
21 Jun 2020How does Hegel's aesthetics, centered on the figure of Antigone and on classical art, allow us to think tragedy, finitude, and the avant-gardes of modernity?
Season 8#10 • Return to the logics of the subject
11 Jun 2020What relationship does the aesthetic field have with the political field, between the poet as bard of the collective and the poet of art for art's sake?
Season 8#9 • Return to the logics of the subject
30 May 2020Does a privation of truth exist, a lie to oneself, that is not culpable, provided it is accompanied by social justice?
Season 7#8 • Harnessed to confinitude
17 May 2020What is lying, and how is lying to oneself related to ideology, repression, and negativity?
Season 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?
Season 7#6 • Harnessed to confinitude
26 Apr 2020What does the polarity of white and red in the poetic imagination, from Chrétien de Troyes to Mallarmé and Nerval, say about our modernity?
Season 7#5 • Harnessed to confinitude
18 Apr 2020If access to truth is irreversible, why does modern consciousness seek to flee it?
Season 7#4 • Harnessed to confinitude
11 Apr 2020When is romanticism, the first expression of modernity, progressive, and when does it become reactionary in the face of access to absolute knowledge?
Season 7#3 • Harnessed to confinitude
4 Apr 2020How does romanticism, the first expression of modernity, express the unhappiness of absolute knowledge, and how can one escape it through a collective subject?
Season 7#2 - Harnessed to Confinitude
30 Mar 2020Why does modern man's access to absolute knowledge come with a refusal to know, and how does this conflict between revolution and counter-revolution structure modernity?
Season 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?
Season 7#1 - Harnessed to Confinitude
27 Mar 2020What is common between the will to stop time in Baudelaire, Debussy and Lévi-Strauss, and the repetition of crises of capital that the events of March 2020 reveal?
Season 7#0 - Harnessed to Confinitude
26 Mar 2020What form will the live sessions offered during the confinement take, and in what spirit?
Introduction to the workshopsInterview with Dominique Pagani: Introduction to the upcoming workshops
23 Mar 2020What does Angélique de Nerval, reread in light of the Odyssey and the structure of the double carnage, teach us about the passage from Enlightenment happiness to the mal du siècle and about today's illusions?
Season 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?
Season 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?
Season 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"?
At the Tropiques bookshopThe brass band's journey - by Dominique Memmi
6 Dec 2019What does Le voyage de la fanfare show, a novel about a brass band from Ajaccio invited in 1978 by Bokassa to the Central African Republic, about ordinary Corsican people and their encounter with Africa?
Season 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?
Season 6#6.1-1/2 - Prelude • D.Pagani / 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?
Season 6#6.1 • The Logic of the Subject • season 6 / 2019-20
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?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityThe religion of Money
29 Sept 2019Why is money, the most vile thing there is, so close to the sacred, and how can we get out of this religion of money?
At the Tropiques bookshopPagani without detours
21 Sept 2019How can a book give linear form to Dominique Pagani's oral teaching, and what does this teaching say about the specificity of philosophy, of modernity, and of the question "what must I do"?
On Michel ClouscardD. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat • Part Two
10 Sept 2019How does Michel Clouscard's reply to Claude Morilhat illuminate the form of his writing, the relation of image to concept, and the question of the State?
On Michel ClouscardD. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987)
23 Aug 2019What does Michel Clouscard's response to Claude Morilhat (1987) reveal about the place of philosophy and about his concept of neo-Kantianism?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityMoney, work, freedom
3 Aug 2019Is money only the power that perverts all values, or a medium whose problem lies in its distribution?
Season 5.2#5.9 Kafka: An Imperial Message
29 Jul 2019Is philosophical communication possible, if the message, as in Kafka's "An Imperial Message," seems never to reach its destination?
Season 5.2#5.8 Nature or Landscape?
30 Jun 2019What distinguishes nature from landscape, and how does the beauty of landscape relate to freedom and property?
Season 5.2#5.7 Nature or Landscape?
26 May 2019How do revolutionary thought and the question "nature or landscape" fit together, and what distinguishes nature from landscape?
Play ▷II PauseDominique Pagani ▷II Michel 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?
Season 5.2#5.6 Nature or Landscape?
2 May 2019How is the exterior, the landscape, interiorized by speech and music, and how does landscape differ from nature?
Season 5.2#5.5 Nature or Landscape?
26 Mar 2019How does landscape reach its highest poetic value when the visible setting fades to become an interior landscape?
Prefaces and AfterwordsDominique Pagani: "What threatens societies are the men and women who benefit from the exploitation of others"
12 Mar 2019What does the collapsologist discourse of Pablo Servigne conceal beneath its scientific appearance?
Play ▷II PauseDominique Pagani ▷II Pablo Servigne
12 Mar 2019What does the collapsologist discourse of Pablo Servigne conceal beneath its scientific appearance?
Prefaces and AfterwordsDiscussion between Aliocha Allard and Dominique Pagani, 29 March 2017
26 Feb 2019Why is globalized, repetitive and binary music, broadcast everywhere since the 1950s, a music of enslavement and amnesia?
Other videosLa Fausse Note (English Subtitles), a film by Aliocha
26 Feb 2019Why is globalized, repetitive and binary music, broadcast everywhere since the 1950s, a music of enslavement and amnesia?
At the Tropiques bookshopHegel and the yellow vests (Part 1)
13 Feb 2019Does the yellow vests movement mark, in light of Hegel and Marx, the return of the social against the societal, and what then becomes of the thesis of the end of history?
Season 5.2#5.4 Nature or Landscape?
4 Feb 2019Are nature and landscape the same thing, or is landscape merely a surface onto which the subject projects its fantasies?
Season 5.2#5.4 Introduction / Nature or Landscape?
25 Jan 2019Are nature and landscape interchangeable terms?
Season 5.1#5.3 bis FaceBookLive / Questions
13 Jan 2019What distinguishes the philosophical question "what do you call...?" from the scientific question "what is it?", and how does the sign-meaning pair separate from the cause-effect pair?
Season 5.1#5.3 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought
31 Dec 2018How can we think both the order of nature and the order of freedom at once, and what makes negativity the principle of revolutionary thought?
Season 5.1#5.2 ter FaceBookLive / Questions (2) following Workshop #5.2
6 Dec 2018What relation does the philosopher have with politics, and how do finality, negativity, mediation and death implicate one another in man?
Season 5.1#5.2 bis FaceBookLive / Questions (1)
6 Dec 2018What place belongs to the concept of end (telos) in the novel of formation and in the Hegelian-Marxist conception of history, and how do negativity and death relate to freedom?
Season 5.1#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought
21 Nov 2018Why does Hegel, the philosopher of mediation, occupy a central place in revolutionary thought from Rousseau to Lenin, and what relation does mediation have with death?
Season 5.1#5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions
2 Nov 2018What place does transmission hold in the pedagogical movement from the Renaissance to Rousseau, and what are the stakes of the dissolution of the separation of genres?
Season 5.1#5.1 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought
24 Oct 2018How does Rousseau open a sequence of revolutionary thought that leads to Lenin, and what dialectical thread runs through it?
Season 5.1#5.0 Presentation of the 2018-19 Workshop Season
15 Oct 2018How can we think revolutionary thought from Rousseau to Lenin without separating the study of praxis from the consideration of the psyche?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityDominique Pagani "On Marx"
6 Oct 2018What does Marx's sentence "in the social production of their existence, men enter into determined relations" mean, and how does it illuminate the world today?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityEducation: can the Beautiful 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?
Prefaces and AfterwordsPreface to Simon Verdun's master's dissertation, "The critique of neo-Kantianism in Michel Clouscard", defended at the ENS in Paris, awarded the highest distinction.
5 Jul 2018What does the concept of neo-kantianism mean in Michel Clouscard's L'Être et le Code, and why does this book, which restores the precapitalist history of France, remain relevant today?
On Michel ClouscardBeing and Code
5 Jul 2018What does the concept of neo-kantianism mean in Michel Clouscard's L'Être et le Code, and why does this book, which restores the precapitalist history of France, remain relevant today?
At the Tropiques bookshopThe Phenomenology of Spirit
2 Jul 2018Why must we reread today Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a philosophy of the true, opposed to the philosophy of sense?
At the Tropiques bookshopTribute to Domenico Losurdo
2 Jul 2018Why is Hegel's logic, long treated as a "dead dog," a logic of revolutionary political discourse that allows a critique of contemporary apoliticism?
Season 4#4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)
14 Jun 2018How is a rigorous, quasi-scientific reading of a literary text possible if an abyss separates the exact sciences from the field of human actions?
Other videosIn conversation: Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1 June 2018
12 Jun 2018Does a communism already exist, as a "real movement," within the institutions won in 1946, and how can it be philosophically thought and defended in current struggles?
Other videosMarxist Café - Work and the right to work
20 May 2018What should be understood by work, and by the right to work, from La Bruyère to Marx, by way of Rousseau and Hegel?
Other videosThe clash of cultures /K. Souleymane (Niger - Pagani)
19 May 2018How can Niger's traditional music be preserved and transmitted while opening its musicians to other repertoires?
Season 4#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)
16 May 2018In what sense is Nerval's quest for the mother, far from being a personal matter, connected to the universal, and what does modernity repress in its relation to art?
Season 4#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)
12 Apr 2018What does the ending of Nerval's Angélique reveal, where the walk that moves away from Rousseau's tomb closes into a loop, and is this necessity of the text merely personal or universal?
At the Tropiques bookshopTonight, we repoliticise. Part 2
31 Mar 2018Why must we "repoliticize the political," and what does the debate between Hegel, Marx and Sartre on totality and totalization say?
Season 4#4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)
15 Mar 2018Why does Angélique's journey, seemingly disjointed, converge on Rousseau's tomb at Ermenonville, and what does Nerval leave the reader once he has led him there?
At the Tropiques bookshopTonight, we repoliticise. Part 1
12 Mar 2018Why must the political today be repoliticized, against the reduction of objectivity to intersubjectivity?
Season 4#4.5 Angélique (by Nerval)
12 Feb 2018Does Nerval's itinerary in Angélique owe anything to chance, and what is meant by chance?
Season 4#4.4B Objections to Dominique Pagani
4 Feb 2018Why go through Nerval and the concept of modernity to think the historical present, dominated by capital?
Season 4#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)
15 Jan 2018What does the comparison of Angélique and Aurélia reveal about the evaporation of the real into surface, about the notion of edge in Nerval, and about the possibility of a determinism of human affairs?
Season 4#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)
11 Dec 2017How can a literary text, that of a madman, achieve such rigor that it grounds a rationality in the human order, where Kant had separated nature and freedom by an unbridgeable abyss?
Other videosThe philosopher's two enemies: The dogmatist and the sceptic.
16 Nov 2017Why are the dogmatist and the skeptic the philosopher's two enemies?
Season 4#4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)
12 Nov 2017Is Angélique a disjointed text, or does it obey, beneath its digressions, a logic that is that of the dream?
Season 4#4.1 Angélique (by Nerval)
18 Oct 2017Why read Nerval's Angélique, and how does this disjointed narrative, written in the middle of the century, lead from the mother's tomb to Rousseau's tomb?
Season 4#4.0 Dominique Pagani, Presentation of the 2017-2018 workshop: Nerval's "Angélique"
24 Sept 2017Why devote the 2017-2018 workshop to a continuous reading of Nerval's Angélique in order to continue the path "from Ulysses to Daedalus, from repetition to liberation"?
Prefaces and Afterwords"SHOULD WE SAVE PRIVATE LORDON?" - Afterword to the Delga reissue of Michel Clouscard's book Neo-Fascism and the Ideology of Desire
1 Aug 2017Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?
Other videosShould we save Private Lordon? Dominique Pagani read by G.Protche
1 Aug 2017Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?
Season 2#2.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
1 Aug 2017How can philosophy, after having answered with the sciences the question "what can I know?", move on to the knowledge of man and his historical present?
Season 2#2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
1 Aug 2017What path did the workshop "Between Crisis and War: Philosophizing?" follow, from the definition of philosophy to the passage to the philosophy of action?
Season 2#2.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
1 Aug 2017How does the reading of Phèdre, which joins the highest poetic beauty to the most profound content, lead from the psychological unconscious to class unconscious, and is there a universal criterion of beauty?
Season 2#2.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
1 Aug 2017How does the modern subject divide itself, and how does literature express the unconscious before Freud theorizes it?
Season 3#3.6 From Ulysses to Daedalus
1 Aug 2017How does one pass from the theoretical order (what can I know?) to the practical order (what must I do?), and why is Rousseau, "Newton of morality," the decisive figure for this?
Season 3#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus
1 Aug 2017Why does Plato's allegory of the cave already contain the whole program of philosophy, from knowledge to the return to politics?
Season 3#3.4 From Ulysses to Daedalus
1 Aug 2017What relation does philosophy hold, in its principle, with politics?
Season 3#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus
1 Aug 2017How can we assume the contradiction between the Greek and Christian heritages without falling back into the old counter-revolutionary thought that presents itself as new?
Season 3#3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus
1 Aug 2017How does modernity, since the French Revolution, repeat the alternation of classicism and romanticism, and is this repetition a return to the same or a spiral?
Season 3#3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus
1 Aug 2017Can man free himself from the fatality of the return of carnage, figured by Ulysses, through the labor that transforms reality, figured by Daedalus?
At the Tropiques bookshopAdotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2)
17 Jun 2017What was the target of the critique of négritude in "Négritude et négrologues"? How did Césaire and Senghor receive the book?
At the Tropiques bookshopAdotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)
17 Jun 2017Why does Stanislas Spero Adotevi criticize négritude, and why must the Black question be thought in terms of class and universality rather than race?
At the Tropiques bookshopNegritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)
8 Jun 2017What does Stanislas Adotevi show in Négritude et négrologues, and why does his critique of the essentialism of negritude disturb even more today?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityIs History a subject?
9 Mar 2017Is history a subject matter, and whose history, of what, do we make?
At the Tropiques bookshopTribute to Jacques D'Hondt (3)
2 Aug 2016Must we accept the two persistent ideas that make Hegel a totalitarian thinker and condemn dialectic, and what can Hegel contribute to thinking about the present world?
At the Tropiques bookshopTribute to Jacques D'Hondt (2)
2 Aug 2016How did Jacques D'Hondt's work undo the image of a conservative Hegel, philosopher of the Restoration, to make him instead the philosopher of living history and of the French Revolution?
At the Tropiques bookshopTribute to Jacques D'Hondt (1)
2 Aug 2016Why and how could Jacques D'Hondt call himself a Hegelian without adopting the manifest content of Hegelianism?
On Michel ClouscardWith Clouscard
2 Aug 2016What does Michel Clouscard's life tell us about his thought, and why does this long-ignored thought impose itself today?
Other videosAt the bistro with Pagani: part 2
19 Jun 2016How does Rousseau open the sequence that runs to Lenin, and what becomes of this legacy in Nerval, the romantics, Clouscard and Nietzsche?
Other videosAt the bistro with Pagani: part 1
18 Jun 2016What do African Francophonie, the misreadings of Clouscard, and the fusion of genres reveal about the modernity born of the French Revolution?
Season 2#2.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
10 Mar 2016What is missing from the Cartesian subject in order to think the modern subject, and why do both the abstract self and the exclusive community end in destruction?
Season 2#2.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
18 Feb 2016Why does philosophy, daughter of crisis, start from words of ordinary language, and what does modern poetry say about the historical moment named by the word "Occident"?
Season 2#2.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
15 Feb 2016How does a sonnet by Baudelaire, La Cloche fêlée, allow us to link the problem of language and communication to the thought of our historical present, modernity?
Season 2#2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
15 Feb 2016Is it philosophical critique that provokes the crisis of the city, or is it because the city is in crisis that philosophizing is needed more than ever?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 5/5
2 Feb 2016How does aesthetic appearance, down to the gleam of a look, express the material and historical richness of a world, and why does recognition between subjects pass through the thing?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 4/5
2 Feb 2016How does the negation of the negation make it possible to understand individuality, labor, the struggle for recognition between master and slave, and the meaning of history as freedom?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 3/5
2 Feb 2016How does the phenomenology of spirit, by refusing to treat knowledge as a preliminary instrument, shift truth from the sensible object to the subject?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachMarx on the Beach 2/2
1 Feb 2016What gives a commodity its value, and how is surplus value at the core of Marx's analysis?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachMarx on the Beach 1/2
1 Feb 2016What does Marx mean when he affirms that men enter into relations of production independent of their will, and in what sense do these relations form "the unconscious of the unconscious"?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 2/5
1 Feb 2016In what way does Hegel, and first of all the Phenomenology of Spirit, remain relevant against a contemporary thought that presents itself as anti-Hegelian?
Hegel & Marx on the BeachHegel on the Beach 1/5
1 Feb 2016How should we read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in light of the historical upheaval and the Romantic crisis from which it emerged?
What Is to Be Done?What is to be done? 3/3
29 Jan 2016How can one respond to the question "what is to be done?" through a theoretical detour, and how does Rousseau, between the praise of labor and the praise of idleness, found property, happiness, and the beauty of landscape on praxis?
What Is to Be Done?What is to be done? 2/3
29 Jan 2016What does the passage from the state of nature to the civil state mean in Rousseau, and why does the Social Contract begin by rejecting force as a foundation of right?
What Is to Be Done?What is to be done? 1/3
29 Jan 2016What is to be done, and why does the answer require a theoretical detour through Rousseau and his conception of happiness?
Season 1#1.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
28 Jan 2016What becomes of philosophy when, in place of the good, modernity posits freedom as foundation, with the negativity and possibilities of evil that this opens up?
Season 1#1.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
11 Dec 2015Why does the philosophy of knowledge lead to the question "what must I do?", and what content should be given to freedom?
Season 1#1.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
10 Dec 2015How can science work, that is, how can the sequence of phenomena follow that of concepts, and what does Kant change by making the subject of knowledge an active subject?
Season 1#1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
10 Dec 2015Why did modern thought banish the notion of end, and how can it be rehabilitated without returning to naive finalism?
Season 1#1.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
10 Dec 2015What does Kant change by making the subject the legislator of knowledge, and why does this emancipation of the subject lead to the question of freedom?
On Michel ClouscardDominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 2/2
8 Dec 2015Why does Clouscard, in Les Chemins de la praxis, pass through Hegel and ontology to think social being, and what becomes of the notion of identity?
On Michel ClouscardDominique Pagani on Michel Clouscard - The paths of praxis 1/2
8 Dec 2015How should we read Michel Clouscard's Les Chemins de la praxis, and why does this book oppose Heidegger, philosopher of the counter-revolution, to Plato, philosopher of the revolution?
Season 1#1.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
14 Sept 2015What can I know, and why does empiricism, which puts us in contact with reality, fail to reach truth?
Season 1#1.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
14 Sept 2015Why does philosophy always arise from crisis, and what distinguishes it from other forms of thought?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityMythology and Truth
8 Aug 2015Why does myth, which philosophy sought to set aside in favor of rational discourse, always come back, and what truth does it express?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityL'île du Peuple: the debate
23 Jun 2015What makes a group of men a people rather than a crowd, and why must the notion of totality be defended against the use of the word "totalitarian"?
Saint-Dizier Popular UniversityThe Music of History
26 Apr 2015What does music teach us about the history of peoples, once we have defined what is properly musical in music?
A Philosophical AlphabetZ for Zero
9 Jan 2015Why is there something rather than nothing, and what does zero mean for man?
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 AlphabetX for Xanthippe
7 Jan 2015Why does Socrates choose Xanthippe, the shrew, and refuse Alcibiades, the most beautiful man in Athens?
A Philosophical AlphabetW for Wolmar
6 Jan 2015Who is Wolmar in Julie, or the New Heloise, and thereby who is Julie?
A Philosophical AlphabetV for Vengeance
5 Jan 2015Is vengeance a moral concept, or first of all a legal concept?
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?
A Philosophical AlphabetT for Triangle
3 Jan 2015Why is geometry necessary for philosophy to rise to the universal, and why is it not sufficient?
A Philosophical AlphabetS for Savagery
2 Jan 2015What is the savage, and is savagery the lowest point of humanity?
A Philosophical AlphabetR for Reverie
1 Jan 2015What exactly does reverie mean, and what would an eleventh promenade of Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker look like?
A Philosophical AlphabetQ for Quality
31 Dec 2014What does a quality say, and what are we talking about when we qualify a thing?
A Philosophical AlphabetP for People
30 Dec 2014What is a people, and how does one distinguish the popular from the populist, from pop music, and from « people » culture?
A Philosophical AlphabetO for Opposition
29 Dec 2014Should one be against, with, or "against with": how can opposition be thought without falling into one-sidedness?
A Philosophical AlphabetN for Niger
28 Dec 2014What has the experience of Africa taught Dominique Pagani?
A Philosophical AlphabetM for Music
27 Dec 2014What relation does music have with time, with language and, in Rousseau, with writing?
A Philosophical AlphabetL for Liberty
26 Dec 2014What is it to be free, and how does freedom differ from libertarian liberalism?
A Philosophical AlphabetK for Karl
25 Dec 2014Should we believe in the return of Marx, and under what conditions does this return not betray him?
A Philosophical AlphabetJ for Jeunesse (Youth)
24 Dec 2014Is youth, in Rousseau, a passing state or a definitive one?
A Philosophical AlphabetI for Island
23 Dec 2014What does the figure of the island mean, from Robinson to the île des Peupliers, where Rousseau's tomb is located at Ermenonville?
A Philosophical AlphabetH for Hegel
22 Dec 2014Why has Hegel disappeared from the 'radar screens' of philosophical debate?
A Philosophical AlphabetG for Gauche (the Left)
21 Dec 2014In what sense can a philosopher call himself a man of the left?
A Philosophical AlphabetF for Farniente
20 Dec 2014Is farniente, doing nothing, a value, and what is it worth depending on the situation of the one who indulges in it?
Prefaces and Afterwords"On a triangle of madness at the heart of modern consciousness"
19 Dec 2014How do childhood, Émile and the island of Ermenonville help us understand Rousseau?
A Philosophical AlphabetE for Enfance (Childhood)
19 Dec 2014How do childhood, Émile and the island of Ermenonville help us understand Rousseau?
A Philosophical AlphabetD for Desire
17 Dec 2014What is the place of desire in philosophy and in today's society?
A Philosophical AlphabetC for Consumption
17 Dec 2014Are we really in a consumer society, and do we consume too much?
A Philosophical AlphabetB for Bach
16 Dec 2014What brings baroque music and rock together, and what does this connection reveal about the relationship between popular and learned music?
A Philosophical AlphabetA for Antigone
15 Dec 2014Is Antigone the figure of the individual who opposes the state?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#5 Libertarian liberalism, libidinal consumption and music...
27 Sept 2014What does the notion of "consumer society" cover, and how does Clouscard's concept of libertarian liberalism allow us to analyze contemporary capitalism, down to musical consumption?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard.
26 Sept 2014How does Michel Clouscard link praxis and psyche, and why does he see in May '68 and the ideology of desire a counter-revolution that prepares a neofascism?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#3 The myth of the noble savage in Rousseau!
23 Sept 2014What does the "noble savage" mean in Rousseau, and what do his draft constitution for Corsica and the theme of the island reveal about his relation to nature and society?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#2 Rousseau, a world that begins
20 Sept 2014Why can one say, with Goethe, that with Rousseau a world begins?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#1 Presentation; the EU; Clouscard; Rousseau.
20 Sept 2014Who is Dominique Pagani, and how does he judge the railway workers' strike and the European Union?
Interviews for L’AffranchiThe EU means war! - excerpt (5min)
18 Sept 2014Did the European Union bring peace to Europe?
On Michel ClouscardRadio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 2
7 Jul 2012How does Michel Clouscard analyze the passage, since May 68, to a capitalism that exploits in production and liberates in consumption?
On Michel ClouscardRadio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 1
6 Jul 2012What does Michel Clouscard's thought contribute to understanding the capitalism that emerged from May 68?
On Michel ClouscardEverything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 2
29 Jan 2012Why does Clouscard criticize "libertarian liberalism," and what becomes of this critique when applied to the state, the societal, and music?
On Michel ClouscardEverything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 1
29 Jan 2012What does Clouscard's formula "Everything is permitted but nothing is possible" cover, and how does it illuminate so-called consumer society, the Marshall Plan and May 68?
Prefaces and AfterwordsPreface to Loïc Chaigneau's book "Why I Am a Communist: An Essay on the Objectivity of Dialectical and Historical Materialism"
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