Saint-Dizier Popular University
Lectures at the Saint-Dizier Popular University: money, work, myth, history, beauty…
- 01
The World Before, The World After - Part 1
What separates a "world before" from a "world after", and is the health crisis a revolution or the acceleration of trends already at work?
- 02
The World Before, The World After - Part 2
How should the "world after" the Covid crisis be judged, and under what conditions can one still speak of progress?
- 03
The Music of History
What does music teach us about the history of peoples, once we have defined what is properly musical in music?
- 04
The religion of Money
Why is money, the most vile thing there is, so close to the sacred, and how can we get out of this religion of money?
- 05
Dominique Pagani "On Marx"
What 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?
- 06
Money, work, freedom
Is money only the power that perverts all values, or a medium whose problem lies in its distribution?
- 07
Mythology and Truth
Why does myth, which philosophy sought to set aside in favor of rational discourse, always come back, and what truth does it express?
- 08
Is History a subject?
Is history a subject matter, and whose history, of what, do we make?
- 09
Education: can the Beautiful be learned?
Is beauty a matter of individual taste, or can it be learned through an education that brings us into contact with works of art?
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L'île du Peuple: the debate
What 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"?