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1. The Imaginary Institution of Society
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2. World in Fragments: Writings on
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3. Crossroads in the Labyrinth
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4. Political and Social Writings:
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5. Figures of the Thinkable (Meridian:
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6. Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy:
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7. Postscript on Insignificance:
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8. On Plato's "Statesman" (Meridian:
 
9. Cornelius Castoriadis, political
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10. Redefining Revolution (Solidarity
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11. Ventana al caos (Seccion de Obras
12. Les carrefours du labyrinthe
13. Dialogue (Serie V.O) (French Edition)
 
14. Institution imaginaire de la Societe
 
15. Political and Social Writings:
 
16. Capitalisme moderne et revolution
 
17. Modern Capitalism and Revolution,
 
18. Crossroads in the labyrinth
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19. Sujet et vérité dans le monde
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20. Gesellschaft als imaginäre Institution.

1. The Imaginary Institution of Society
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 426 Pages (1998-01-09)
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"[T]he most original, ambitious, and reflective attempt to think throughthe liberating mediation of history, society, external and internalnature once again as praxis." -- Jürgen Habermas, ThePhilosophical Discourse of Modernity

"Castoriadis's The Imaginary Institution of Society is a work ofgreat power and originality. As a work of social theory, I would arguethat it belongs in a class with the writings of Habermas and Arendt." --Jay Bernstein, University of Essex

This is one of the most original and important works of contemporaryEuropean thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the majortheoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today.

Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis of the uniquecharacter of the social-historical world and its relations to theindividual, to language, and to nature. He argues that most traditionalconceptions of society and history overlook the essential feature of thesocial-historical world, namely that this world is not articulated onceand for all but is in each case the creation of the society concerned.In emphasizing the element of creativity, Castoriadis opens the way forrethinking political theory and practice in terms of the autonomous andexplicit self-institution of society. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars One of the most important thinkers of the 20th century
Castoriadis was born in 1922 in cosmopolitan Constantinople (now Istanbul)from Greek parents. He grew up in Athens in a cultivated and fertile social environment. Castoriadis belongs to the generation of Greek thinkers that left Greece (in 1945 because of the Greek civil war)and matured in Europe (Axelos, Kranaki, Papaioannou etc.).The imaginary istitution of society is his landmark work. In this work he covers several subjects (marxism, revolutionary theory, social imaginary and the individual..).A few words from this work will show the depthand clarity of his thought: "Is my desire infantile? But it is the situation we live in infantile. That the life is given to us, the law is given to us. In an infantile situation life is given for nothing;and the law is given without anything (sans rien), without a possible discussion. But what I want is the opposite: I want to live my life and if possible to give life .....The person who is in an infantile level is the person who is apolitical and conformist...the person who replaces the private father with the social anonymous father... " ... Read more


2. World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination (Meridian - Crossing Aesthetics)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 552 Pages (1997-07-01)
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This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought. Starting from an inquiry that grows out of the specific context of a society that is experiencing uncertainty as to its ways of living and being, its goals, its values, and its knowledge, one that has been incapable, so far, of adequately understanding the crisis it is undergoing, Castoriadis sets as his task the elucidation of this crisis and its conditions.

The book is in four parts: Koinonia, Polis, Psyche, Logos. The opening section begins with a general introduction to the author’s views on being, time, creation, and the imaginary institution of society and continues with reflections on the role of the individual psyche in racist thinking and acting and on the retreat from autonomy to generalized conformity in postmodernism. The second part is a critique of those who now belittle and distort the meaning of May ‘68 and other movements of the sixties as well as the French Revolution. The fate of the “project of autonomy” is considered here in the light of the Greek and the modern “political imaginary,” the “pulverization of Marxism-Leninism,” and a recent alleged “return of ethics” (Habermas, Rawls, McIntyre, Solzhenitsyn, Havel).

In part three, Castoriadis shows how psychoanalysis, like politics, can contribute to the project of individual and collective autonomy and challenges Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and others in his report on “The State of the Subject Today.” This section also presents his most current lines of psychoanalytic research and thought on the “human nonconscious” in the body and on the problem of the psychoanalysis of psychotic subjects, where an alternative coherence on the level of meaning offers a constant challenge to the task of psychoanalytic interpretation.

Castoriadis’s highly original investigations of the unruly place of the imagination in Western philosophy round out the book. He examines how Aristotle’s original aporetic discovery and cover-up of the imagination were repeated by Kant, Freud, Heidegger, andMerleau-Ponty.

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3. Crossroads in the Labyrinth
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 377 Pages (1986-02-07)
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Cornelius Castoriadis is a fascinating figure, not only because of his personal and intellectual background, but because of the extraordinary breadth of his interests and his ability to play the brilliant intellectual jester—all characteristics in abundant evidence in this collection of essays. In them, Castoriadis goes to the heart of deep philosophical issues raised but not answered by modern thought.

The book presents his concerns with the development of analytical theories of psychology, language, and politics, all commonly rooted in the social and historical aspects of human creativity. It examines figures as diverse as Aristotle, Heidegger, Lacan, Marx, and Merleau-Ponty. ... Read more


4. Political and Social Writings: Volume 1, 1946-1955
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 384 Pages (1988-08-15)
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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, gains renewed significance. . . . these volumes are instructive because they enable us to trace his rigorous engagement with the project of socialist construction from his break with Trotskyism to his final breach with Marxism . . . and would be read with profit by all those seeking to comprehend the historical originality of events in the USSR and Eastern Europe." –Contemporary Sociology

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5. Figures of the Thinkable (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 304 Pages (2007-07-18)
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In this posthumous collection of writings, Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) pursues his incisive analysis of modern society, the philosophical basis of our ability to change it, and the points of intersection between his many approaches to this theme.His main philosophical postulate, that the human subject and society are not predetermined, asserts the primacy of creation and the possibility of creative, autonomous activity in every domain.This argument is combined with penetrating political and social criticism, opening numerous avenues of critical thought and action.

The book’s wide-ranging topics include the core worldview of ancient Athens, where the idea of self-creation and self-limitation made democracy possible; the wealth of poetic resources; a deconstruction of the so-called rationality of capitalism and of the current conception of democracy, along with a discussion of what a radical, revolutionary project means today; the role of what he calls the radical imagination in the creation of both societal institutions and history; the roots of hate; a psychoanalytic view of human development torn between heteronomy and autonomy; the role of education in forming autonomous individuals; and notions of chaos, space, and number.

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6. Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy: Essays in Political Philosophy (Odeon)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 320 Pages (1991-09-05)
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These remarkable essays include Cornelius Castoriadis's latest contributions to philosophy, political and social theory, classical studies, development theory, cultural criticism, science, and ecology. Examining the "co-birth" in ancient Greece of philosophy and politics, Castoriadis shows how the Greeks' radical questioning of established ideas and institutions gave rise to the "project of autonomy".The "end of philosophy" proclaimed by Postmodernism would mean the end of this project.That end is now hastened by the lethal expansion of technoscience, the waning of political and social conflict, and the resignation of intellectuals who blindly defend Western culture as it is or who merely denounce or "deconstruct" it as it has been. Discussing and criticizing Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Weber, Heidegger, and Habermas, the author of The Imaginary Institution of Society and Crossroads in the Labyrinth poses a radical challenge to our inherited philosophy. ... Read more


7. Postscript on Insignificance: Dialogues with Cornelius Castoriadis
by Cornelius Castoriadis, John V. Garner, Gabriel Rockhill
Paperback: 160 Pages (2011-04-14)
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This title is a collection of interviews in which Cornelius Castoriadis discusses his key works and ideas. Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a philosopher, social critic, political activist, practicing psychoanalyst and professional economist. His work is widely recognized as one of the most singular and important contributions to twentieth-century thought. In this collection of interviews, Castoriadis discusses some of his most important ideas with leading figures in the disciplines that play such a crucial part in his philosophical work: poetry, psychoanalysis, biology and mathematics. Available in English for the first time, these interviews provide a concise and accessible introduction to his work as a whole, allowing him to draw on the astounding breadth of his knowledge (ranging from philosophy and mathematics to political theory and psychoanalysis). They also render Castoriadis' cutting, polemical and entertaining style while displaying the originality and clarity of his primary concepts. Intellectually provoking, this timely collection shows how Castoriadis' polemics are sharp and riveting, his conceptual manoeuvres rigorous and original, and his passion inspiring.This is an excellent introduction to one of Europe's most important intellectuals. ... Read more


8. On Plato's "Statesman" (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 264 Pages (2002-08-14)
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This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned and influential figure in twentieth-century thought.A close reading of Plato’s Statesman, it is an exemplary instance of Castoriadis’s pragmatic, pertinent, and discriminating approach to thinking and reading a great work: “I mean really reading it, by respecting it without respecting it, by going into the recesses and details without having decided in advance that everything it contains is coherent, homogeneous, makes sense, and is true.”

Castoriadis brings out what he calls The Statesman’s “quirky structure,” with its three digressions, its eight incidental points, and its two definitions, neither of which is deemed good.He does not hesitate to differ with the text, to show that what is, in appearance, secondary is really essential, and that the denunciation of the Sophists accommodates itself quite well to the use of sophistical procedures.Castoriadis shows how The Statesman takes us into the heart of what is distinctive in the late Plato: blending, acceptance of the mixed, of the intermediate.

These transcriptions of Cornelius’s afford the reader an opportunity to discover his trenchant, convincing, energetic, provocative, and often droll voice.Here is a hitherto unknown Castoriadis, who reflects as he speaks, collects himself, corrects himself, and doesn’t hesitate to revisit key points.In short, this is Castoriadis’s thinking in action.

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9. Cornelius Castoriadis, political and social writings
by Cornelius Castoriadis
 Paperback: Pages (1988)

Isbn: 0816616140
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10. Redefining Revolution (Solidarity pamphlet)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 30 Pages (1978-12)
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11. Ventana al caos (Seccion de Obras de Filosofia) (Spanish Edition)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 152 Pages (2008-02-26)
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12. Les carrefours du labyrinthe
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 302 Pages (1999-11-12)

Isbn: 2020365693
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13. Dialogue (Serie V.O) (French Edition)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 109 Pages (1999)

Isbn: 2876784874
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14. Institution imaginaire de la Societe
by Cornelius Castoriadis
 Paperback: Pages (1975)

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15. Political and Social Writings: 1955-60 - From the Workers' Struggle Against Bureaucracy to Revolution in the Age of Modern Capitalism v. 2
by Cornelius Castoriadis
 Hardcover: 375 Pages (1988-08-15)
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16. Capitalisme moderne et revolution (10/18 [i.e. Dix--dix-huit] ; 1303-1304) (French Edition)
by Cornelius Castoriadis
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1979)

Isbn: 2264009829
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17. Modern Capitalism and Revolution, By Paul Cardan [Pseud.].
by Cornelius [As Paul Cardan] Castoriadis
 Paperback: Pages (1974-01-01)

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18. Crossroads in the labyrinth
by Cornelius Castoriadis
 Unknown Binding: 345 Pages (1984)

Isbn: 0855275383
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19. Sujet et vérité dans le monde social-historique
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 495 Pages (2002-05-07)
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20. Gesellschaft als imaginäre Institution. Entwurf einer politischen Philosophie.
by Cornelius Castoriadis
Paperback: 613 Pages (1990-03-01)
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