Series · 2015
A Philosophical Alphabet
From Antigone to Zero, an alphabet made with friends from the Saint-Dizier Popular University.
26 letters5 h 20 min
- forAntigoneA for AntigoneIs Antigone the figure of the individual who opposes the state?Hegel · Hölderlin · Sophocle
- forBachB for BachWhat brings baroque music and rock together, and what does this connection reveal about the relationship between popular and learned music?Beethoven · Bartók · Charlie Parker
- forConsumptionConsommationC for ConsumptionAre we really in a consumer society, and do we consume too much?Clouscard · Lordon · Rousseau
- forDesireDésirD for DesireWhat is the place of desire in philosophy and in today's society?Wagner · Spinoza · Lordon
- forEnfanceChildhoodE for Enfance (Childhood)How do childhood, Émile and the island of Ermenonville help us understand Rousseau?Rousseau · Zola · Voltaire
- forFarnienteF for FarnienteIs farniente, doing nothing, a value, and what is it worth depending on the situation of the one who indulges in it?Rousseau · Pascal · Hegel
- forGauchethe LeftG for Gauche (the Left)In what sense can a philosopher call himself a man of the left?Merleau-Ponty · Nietzsche · Zarathoustra
- forHegelH for HegelWhy has Hegel disappeared from the 'radar screens' of philosophical debate?Marx · Althusser · Feuerbach
- forIslandÎleI for IslandWhat does the figure of the island mean, from Robinson to the île des Peupliers, where Rousseau's tomb is located at Ermenonville?Rousseau · Rimbaud · Nerval
- forJeunesseYouthJ for Jeunesse (Youth)Is youth, in Rousseau, a passing state or a definitive one?Rousseau · Hegel · Nietzsche
- forKarlK for KarlShould we believe in the return of Marx, and under what conditions does this return not betray him?Marx · Lordon · Rousseau
- forLibertyLibertéL for LibertyWhat is it to be free, and how does freedom differ from libertarian liberalism?Rousseau · Clouscard · Cohn-Bendit
- forMusicMusiqueM for MusicWhat relation does music have with time, with language and, in Rousseau, with writing?Rousseau · Bergson · Wagner
- forNigerN for NigerWhat has the experience of Africa taught Dominique Pagani?Proust · Laurent Gbagbo · Rousseau
- forOppositionO for OppositionShould one be against, with, or "against with": how can opposition be thought without falling into one-sidedness?Hegel · Platon · Nerval
- forPeoplePeupleP for PeopleWhat is a people, and how does one distinguish the popular from the populist, from pop music, and from « people » culture?Hegel · Rousseau · Procuste
- forQualityQualitéQ for QualityWhat does a quality say, and what are we talking about when we qualify a thing?Pascal · Senancour · Swann
- forReverieR for ReverieWhat exactly does reverie mean, and what would an eleventh promenade of Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker look like?Rousseau · Verlaine · Proust
- forSavagerySauvagerieS for SavageryWhat is the savage, and is savagery the lowest point of humanity?Rousseau · Dante · Newton
- forTriangleT for TriangleWhy is geometry necessary for philosophy to rise to the universal, and why is it not sufficient?Euclide · Platon · Rousseau
- forÜbermenschU for ÜbermenschWhat does Nietzsche's notion of the superman cover, and what does it become when related to the notion of the subhuman?Nietzsche · Lothrop Stoddard · Losurdo
- forVengeanceV for VengeanceIs vengeance a moral concept, or first of all a legal concept?Marcello Mastroianni · Pietro Germi · Hegel
- forWolmarW for WolmarWho is Wolmar in Julie, or the New Heloise, and thereby who is Julie?Rousseau · Julie · Suzanne
- forXanthippeX for XanthippeWhy does Socrates choose Xanthippe, the shrew, and refuse Alcibiades, the most beautiful man in Athens?Socrate · Clouscard · Marx
- forYonvilleY for YonvilleHow can one distinguish the imaginary from illusion, and what is the place of the imaginary in creation and in politics?Rousseau · Nietzsche · Hölderlin
- forZeroZ for ZeroWhy is there something rather than nothing, and what does zero mean for man?Hegel · Pascal · Hölderlin