Questions and answers
philosophical Q&A
Dominique 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…
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Wagner and his interpreters, approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus?
How 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?
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“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?
Should 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?
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A balance in nature?
Is there a balance in nature that man has come to disturb, or does this idea project the ideology of the market onto nature?
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My eco-cabin in the ZAD: autonomy or alienation?
Is the autonomy claimed today by those who go off to live in nature a freedom or a way of freeing oneself from humanity?
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Cynicism of the extreme centre or epistemic heroism? The dialectic of the middle
What is the relation between the consciousness of consciousness and the victory of bourgeois materialist cynicism, and what does the category of the milieu reveal?
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Heidegger, or panzer-philosophy
Why is Heidegger "the most Nazi of the great philosophers," and what does Dominique Pagani reproach him for above all?
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A chapter of Marx written by Hegel
How 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?
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From the lost voice to the path of modernity: from modal music to tonal music
How 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?
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Being born human is not enough to be human
In what way, in man, does code precede being?
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Left-washing: are the woke the most asleep?
Why 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?
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The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity: Molière, Clouscard, Wagner
Are femininity and feminism compatible or different?
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Panzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature (Heidegger, Descartes)
What 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?
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Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics
Why is romanticism ambivalent between aesthetics and politics, and in what sense are surface, reflection and landscape more profound than the depths?
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Security: is it conservatism or Revolution?
Is security a matter of conservatism or of revolution?