Cornelius Castoriadis and radical democracy / / edited by Vrasidas Karalis.

• Superior document: Social and Critical Theory, Volume 16
• TeilnehmendeR: Karalēs, Vrasidas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Social and critical theory ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction to Cornelius Castoriadis’ Early Essays /; Author’s Introduction to the Publication of the 1988 Edition /; 1 Directions of the Journal Sociological and Ethical Archive /; 2 On the Work of Max Weber /; 3 Obituary for A[gis] Stinas /; 4 The Choral Ode from Antigone: “πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ [. . .]” Refracted Through Cornelius Castoriadis and Martin Heidegger /; 5 Aesthetics and Autonomy /; 6 Philosophy and Theatre: Cornelius Castoriadis on the Imaginary Structure of Meanings in Theatre and Performance /; 7 Bureaucratic Capitalism and the work of Cornelius Castoriadis /; 8 Contexts of Capitalism: From the ‘Unlimited Extension of “Rational Mastery” ’ to Civilizational Varieties of Accumulation and Economic Imagination /; 9 Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Castoriadis and the Politics of Heterodox Marxism /; 10 Between Creative Democracy and Democratic Creativity /; 11 Imagining Democracy /; 12 Autonomy, Oligarchy, Statesman: Weber, Castoriadis and the Fragility of Politics /; 13 Radical Democratic Subjectivity: Possibilities and Limits /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004278583
• ISSN: 1572-459x
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Vrasidas Karalis.

Cornelius Castoriadis and the Project of Radical Autonomy analyses the philosophy of Greek-born French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis. A leading member of the influential revolutionary group, Socialism or Barbarism in France, Castoriadis analysed contemporary political subjectivity and culture in terms of the collective and individual attempt to gain autonomy. His philosophy frames a multi-dimensional analysis of modern capitalist societies, based on a systematic critique of orthodox Marxism, Heideggerian ontology and Lacanian psychology. The present volume consists of two parts. In the first part, his most significant essays written before his departure to France in 1945 are translated and present young Castoriadis’ interpretation of Max Weber’s theory of bureaucratic societies. The second part consists of a series of essays by various scholars on aspects of Castoriadis’ mature philosophy in relation to other thinkers, and against the background of Europe’s political and social history.