This posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997 is a lively, direct introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his radically critical stance. It provides a clear, handy rsum of his political ideas, in advance of their times and profoundly relevant to today's world.For this political thinker and longtime militant (co-founder with Claude Lefort of the revolutionary group Socialisme ou Barbarie), economist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher, two endless interrogations-how to understand the world and life in society-were...
This posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997 is a lively, direct introduction to the thin...
In der gesamten abendländischen Tradition des politischen Denkens wurde bisher die entscheidende Rolle des Imaginären bei der gesellschaftlichen -Einrichtung der Welt- ausgeblendet. Dieses Imaginäre - so lautet die Prämisse von Castoriadis großem Neuentwurf einer politischen Philosophie - ist die schöpferische Einbildungskraft des Menschen: unerschöpfliche Quelle von Neuem in der Geschichte und nie erlahmende Triebkraft der Selbstveränderung der Gesellschaft. Erst wenn das historische Werden nicht bloß als Neukombination bereits vorliegender Elemente, sondern als -ontologische...
In der gesamten abendländischen Tradition des politischen Denkens wurde bisher die entscheidende Rolle des Imaginären bei der gesellschaftlichen -Ei...
Political and Social Writings: Volume 1, 1946-1955 was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
A series of writings by the man who inspired the students of the Workers' Rebellion in May of 1968.
"Given the rapid pace of change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the radical nature of these transformations, the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, a consistent and radical critic of Soviet Marxism,...
Political and Social Writings: Volume 1, 1946-1955 was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make l...
Political and Social Writings: Volume 2, 1955-1960 was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
A series of writings by the man who inspired the students of the Workers' Rebellion in May of 1968.
"Given the rapid pace of change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the radical nature of these transformations, the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, a consistent and radical critic of Soviet...
Political and Social Writings: Volume 2, 1955-1960 was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make ...
Political and Social Writings: Volume 3, 1961-1979 was first published in 1992. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This work offers an extraordinary wealth and variety of writings from the crucial years that followed the publication of Castoriadis's landmark text, Modern Capitalism and Revolution. The "new orientation" he proposed for the Socialisme ou Barbarie group centered on the emerging roles of women, youth,...
Political and Social Writings: Volume 3, 1961-1979 was first published in 1992. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make l...