Cornelius Castoriadis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 253589 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cornelius Castoriadis |
| NOMBRES | Cornelius |
| APELLIDO | Castoriadis |
| FIRMA | CASTORIADIS C |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Exactas |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Conférence inédite sur Lénine (1949/1950)
Dans cette conférence organisée par les militants de Socialisme ou Barbarie à la fin des années 1940, Castoriadis aborde la figure de Lénine, les conditions d’une discussion critique de son héritage pour la tradition révolutionnaire, et la signification du léninisme pour l’histoire du mouvement ouvrier comme expression du développement de sa conscience de classe
The Greek Imaginary
Offers in English for the first time philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis’s earliest surviving lectures on the ancient Greeks Includes renowned scholar Pierre Vidal-Naquet’s essay, ’Castoriadis and Ancient Greece’" (1999), which provides an introduction and memorial to Castoriadis’s research Includes Castoriadis’s previously untranslated, substantive essay, "’Political Thought’" (1979), which presages many of the key themes in the seminars Includes …
Seminar from December 15, 1982
This chapter continues the discussion of Homer, arguing that the poems contain a deep sense of the tragic. Admitting that the study of Homer inevitably requires taking account of what would emerge later in history, Castoriadis focuses on the significance of the Homeric conception of moira , which he links closely to the idea of limits and death. Castoriadis discusses the importance of a chosen death, emphasizing Odysseus’s choice against the pros…
The Greek Imaginary
This book collects twelve previously untranslated seminars offered by Cornelius Castoriadis in 1982-1983 at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. It also includes important supplemental writings by Castoriadis and a substantive essay by Pierre Vidal-Naquet highlighting Castoriadis’s contributions to the study of the ancient Greece intellectual legacy. Castoriadis’s seminars themselves focus broadly on the interconne…
Quelle démocratie pour l'autonomie et le bien-vivre
Issu de conférences prononcées à Rome, en 1994, et à New York, en 1995, le texte 1 dont sont extraits ici des passages, constitue l'une des meilleures introductions à la notion de démocratie telle que Castoriadis l'a conçue au cours de plusieurs écrits qu'il lui a consacrés. Concevant la démocratie moins comme une technique de pouvoir que comme un régime laissant libre cours à la politique, entendue comme la libre expression des individus poursui…
Window into chaos
This is the first English translation of a remarkable two-part lecture given by Cornelius Castoriadis at the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in January 1992. The lecture features within a series on social transformation and the task of creative forms of labour. In this installment Castoriadis explores the significance of art through a creative reading of Aristotle's famous definition of tragedy in the Poetics. He rejects Aristotle's …
Radical imagination and the social instituting imaginary
Imagination is the power to make appear representations, whether with or without an external incitement. 'Impressions' are a philosophical or psychological artefact. Now philosophy starts when we begin trying to break the closure of this life-world in both its biological and social-historical dimensions. True, the Third Critique sketches another view, but only 'reflectively' and only as part of a heavy teleological metaphysics. Defunctionalizatio…
The Imaginary as Such
La institución imaginaria de la sociedad
Thucydide, la force et le droit. Ce qui fait la Grèce, 3
L'année 1984-1985 de l'enseignement de Cornelius Castoriadis à l'EHESS a été consacrée pour l'essentiel à Thucydide. L'auteur a voulu en particulier montrer, à travers l'analyse de l'Oraison funèbre attribuée par l'historien à Périclès, à quel point la grande création démocratique athénienne du Ve siècle fut consciente d'elle-même. Mais Castoriadis – sans céder aux anachronismes et aux projections auxquels les interprétations de l'historien ont t…
Transformation sociale et création culturelle
Après avoir constaté que les cultures et les sociétés sont mortelles, l'auteurse demande ce qui, dans le monde social-historique contemporain, est en train demourir, comment et pourquoi il en est ainsi; il cherche aussi à discerner ce qui esten devenir. « Ce qui est en train de naître, péniblement, fragmentairement etcontradictoirement, depuis deux siècles et plus, c'est le projet d'une nouvellesociété, le projet d'autonomie sociale et individuel…
Un monde à venir
Les conditions du nouveau en philosophie
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Les ouvriers face à la bureaucratieI
La force révolutionnaire de l'écologie
Homero
Reflexiones en torno al racismo
Reflexiones en torno al racismo Reflexiones en torno al racismo
Les carrefours du labyrinthe
World in Fragments
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 el…
Meridian. Crossing Aesthetics
World in fragments
Democracy as Procedure and Democracy as Regime
In the intellectual confusion prevailing since the demise of Marxism and “marxism”, the attempt is made to define democracy as a matter of pure procedure, explicitly avoiding and condemning any reference to substantive objectives. It can easily be shown, however, that the idea of a purely procedural “democracy” is incoherent and self‐contradictory. No legal system whatsoever and no government can exist in the absence of substantive conditions whi…
Anthropology, Philosophy, Politics
The question of man is a question of philosophical anthropology. It raises a particular problem because man is both the subject and object of any knowledge of man. This question has ontological consequences, because man is the one being that can have knowledge of himself and can change himself and the laws of his existence. Such knowledge and change, however, are not innate to man but are creations that have both psychical and social-historical p…
The Crisis of the Identification Process
This paper considers the crisis of the identification process from the social-historical standpoint, for it cannot be understood when divorced from the social totality. Attempts to explain the current crisis in terms of particular institutions such as changes in habitat, a crisis in the family, etc. fail to account for it, since it also manifests itself in milieux and individuals not experiencing these changes directly. The crisis the identificat…
El ascenso de la insignificancia
Below is an interview given by Cornelius Castoriadis to Olivier \nMorel on 18 June 1993. It was broadcast on Radio Plurielle \nand published later on La République Internationale des \nLettres (June 1994
Democracy as Procedure and Democracy as Regime
In the intellectual confusion prevailing since the demise of Marxism and “marxism”, the attempt is made to define democracy as a matter of pure procedure, explicitly avoiding and condemning any reference to substantive objectives. It can easily be shown, however, that the idea of a purely procedural “democracy” is incoherent and self‐contradictory. No legal system whatsoever and no government can exist in the absence of substantive conditions whi…
The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy
La Grece, premiere communaute deliberant explicitement de ses lois. Athenes, cite de l'auto-institution
Anthropology, Philosophy, Politics
The question of man is a question of philosophical anthropology. It raises a particular problem because man is both the subject and object of any knowledge of man. This question has ontological consequences, because man is the one being that can have knowledge of himself and can change himself and the laws of his existence. Such knowledge and change, however, are not innate to man but are creations that have both psychical and social-historical p…
Individual, Society, Rationality, History
The logic of magmas and the question of autonomy
A partir de remarques sur la logique des ensembles, leur constitution en particulier, l'A. etend son propos au domaine social. Il reflechit sur l'autonomie individuelle, ouverte ontologiquement sur autrui, et sur l'organisation fonctionnelle de la societe
Institution of Society and Religion
Reflections on Racism
Reflections on 'Rationality' and 'Development
The State Of The Subject Today
La polis grecque et la création de la démocratie
The Crisis of the Identification Process
This paper considers the crisis of the identification process from the social-historical standpoint, for it cannot be understood when divorced from the social totality. Attempts to explain the current crisis in terms of particular institutions such as changes in habitat, a crisis in the family, etc. fail to account for it, since it also manifests itself in milieux and individuals not experiencing these changes directly. The crisis the identificat…
Does the Idea of Revolution Still Make Sense
The Crisis of Western Societies
Clearly, stratocratic Russia's aim is the expansion of it empire and, ultimately, world domination. At an even deeper level, the entire impersonal dynamics and inertia of the Russian regime is oriented in this direction. External expansion is not an “idea” in the mind of Kremlin leaders: it is inscribed in the very structure of the regime, materialized in the state of productive forces, of the economy, of society, in their division between the ef…
From Ecology To Autonomy
The Hungarian Source
Over the coming years, all significant questions will be condensed into one: Are you for or against the action and the program of the Hungarian workers?" Perhaps I should apologize for quoting myself. But today, twenty years later, I stand by these lines more firmly and more savagely, if possible, than when I wrote them. Nothing—not even the silence surrounding the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in virtually all the Left, New Left and Far Left literat…
El ascenso de la insignificancia
Below is an interview given by Cornelius Castoriadis to Olivier \nMorel on 18 June 1993. It was broadcast on Radio Plurielle \nand published later on La République Internationale des \nLettres (June 1994
Merleau-Ponty and the Weight of the Ontological Tradition
Passion and Knowledge
Nothing that can be called thinking is formalized or formalizable; nor can it be likened to a mechanical process (Church's hypothesis). Rather, thinking sets into motion human imagination and passion.Having already written extensively on the imagination,' I will limit myself here to outlining its basic structure. At the two opposite poles of knowledge, as well as in its center, lies the creative power of the human being, that is, radical imaginat…
El campo de lo social histórico
Socialism and Autonomous Society
Henceforth, the terms "socialism" and "communism" will have to be abandoned. Of course, the meaning attached to words is conventional and arbitrary. But this means that the meaning of a word is what it has finally become through actual historical usage. To give a purer meaning to the tribe's words is perhaps the poet's or the philosopher's task, but certainly not the politician's. Whether we like it or not, for most people today socialism means t…
Window into chaos
This is the first English translation of a remarkable two-part lecture given by Cornelius Castoriadis at the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in January 1992. The lecture features within a series on social transformation and the task of creative forms of labour. In this installment Castoriadis explores the significance of art through a creative reading of Aristotle's famous definition of tragedy in the Poetics. He rejects Aristotle's …
De la monade à l'autonomie
Castoriadis Cornélius, Polack Jean-Claude, Castoriadis Sparta. De la monade à l’autonomie. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°14, hiver 1991. Corps et âmes. pp. 95-124
Poder, política, autonomía
E 1 autodespliegue de los imaginario radical como sociedad y como historia __,.,como lo social-histórico-se hace y sólo puede hacerse en y por las dos dimensiones de lo instituyente y lo instituido.1 La institución, en el sentido fundador es creación originaria del campo social-histórico -del colectivo-anónimo
Reflexiones en torno al racismo
Nos hallamos aquí••, es evidente, porque queremos
Marx Today
The Hungarian Source
Over the coming years, all significant questions will be condensed into one: Are you for or against the action and the program of the Hungarian workers?" Perhaps I should apologize for quoting myself. But today, twenty years later, I stand by these lines more firmly and more savagely, if possible, than when I wrote them. Nothing—not even the silence surrounding the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in virtually all the Left, New Left and Far Left literat…
The Social Regime in Russia
1. That Russian society is a divided one, subject to the domination of a particular social group, and with widespread exploitation and oppression, is directly evidenced by the most elementary and best known facts. To present the Russian regime as “socialist” or as a “workers' state,” as do both the “left” and the “right” in an almost universal complicity, or even to discuss its nature in reference to socialism to determine at what points and to w…
Socialism and Autonomous Society
Henceforth, the terms "socialism" and "communism" will have to be abandoned. Of course, the meaning attached to words is conventional and arbitrary. But this means that the meaning of a word is what it has finally become through actual historical usage. To give a purer meaning to the tribe's words is perhaps the poet's or the philosopher's task, but certainly not the politician's. Whether we like it or not, for most people today socialism means t…
Un livre étranger
From Ecology To Autonomy
Vers la stratocratie
The Crisis of Western Societies
Clearly, stratocratic Russia's aim is the expansion of it empire and, ultimately, world domination. At an even deeper level, the entire impersonal dynamics and inertia of the Russian regime is oriented in this direction. External expansion is not an “idea” in the mind of Kremlin leaders: it is inscribed in the very structure of the regime, materialized in the state of productive forces, of the economy, of society, in their division between the ef…
The Toughest and Most Fragile of Regimes
THIBAUD: The Polish events, the manner in which the Russians and their representatives in Poland intervened on December 13 against Solidarity, what does this tell us concerning the functioning of the Soviet system and its possibilities? CASTORIADIS: On the tactical level, it has been clear for a long time that three possibilities were open to the Kremlin: one, direct military intervention; another, a policy attempting and-or provoking the acceler…
The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy
La Grece, premiere communaute deliberant explicitement de ses lois. Athenes, cite de l'auto-institution
Sur l'Union soviétique
Marx Today
Reflections on 'Rationality' and 'Development
The Nature and Value of Equality Translated by David A. Curtis
El campo de lo social histórico
La polis grecque et la création de la démocratie
The Imaginary Institution of Society
[T]he most original, ambitious, and reflective attempt to think through the liberating mediation of history, society, external and internal nature once again as praxis. -- Ju rgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Castoriadis's The Imaginary Institution of Society is a work of great power and originality. As a work of social theory, I would argue that it belongs in a class with the writings of Habermas and Arendt. -- Jay Bernstei…
The Movements of the Sixties
Reflexiones en torno al racismo
Nos hallamos aquí••, es evidente, porque queremos
Communication
Cornélius Castoriadis
Autonomie et autotransformation de la société
Poder, política, autonomía
E 1 autodespliegue de los imaginario radical como sociedad y como historia __,.,como lo social-histórico-se hace y sólo puede hacerse en y por las dos dimensiones de lo instituyente y lo instituido.1 La institución, en el sentido fundador es creación originaria del campo social-histórico -del colectivo-anónimo
The State Of The Subject Today
Political and Social Writings
Autonome Gesellschaft und libertäre Demokratie
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