David Ames Curtis

Biographic Data

ID3983816
NAMEDavid Ames Curtis
GIVEN NAMESDavid Ames
FAMILY NAMECurtis
SIGNATURECURTIS D A
AFFILIATIONSParis, France
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Barbarism Without Barbarians

    Fabio Ciaramelli, David Ames CurtisARTICLECommon Knowledge2025

    Behind the disappointment, as imagined in a well-known poem by Constantine Cavafy, that the barbarians have failed to arrive, is a civilization closing upon itself and unable to envision an exit from its crisis. This metaphor is for the unfulfilled desire to overcome, at last, the impasse of a form of life whose shared significations are collapsing without success in renewing themselves. Such a form, enslaved as it is to the monotonous and incont…

  • Ciaramelli's “Barbarism Without Barbarians”

    David Ames CurtisARTICLECommon Knowledge2025

    Curtis introduces his translation of Fabio Ciaramelli's essay “Barbarism Without Barbarians” with philosophical and linguistic reflections, in a practical vein, on the process of transforming social imaginary significations from one language into another when words and meanings from third and fourth languages also intervene

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Cornelius Castoriadis but Were Afraid to Ask David Ames Curtis

    Open AccessAndrey Rolyenok, David Ames CurtisARTICLETopos2023

    Andrey Rolyenok’s conversation/correspondence with David Ames Curtis on Cornelius Castoriadis’s legacy, its preservation, promotion, and critical updating in the context of the current socio-political situation took place in January–March 2023. The contribution of the Agora International Association to the development and extension of Castoriadis’s work is considered in the interview. The origins of Castoriadis’s thought (break with Marxism, revi…

  • Legitimacy and Politics: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility

    Open AccessJean‐marc Coicaud, Jean-Marc Coicaud et al.BOOKLegitimacy and Politics2002

    The increase in cases of political corruption, the loss of politicians' credibility, the development of social and political forms of pathology (notably the rise of the extreme right along with exclusionist ideologies), and the role of the State have been at the center of political debates. In one way or another, these problems raise the question of the legitimacy of the established powers. The result is that legitimacy, a key notion of political…

  • The Castoriadis Reader

    Kevin Anderson, David Ames CurtisARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1998

  • Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Comments on Wolfenstein's Critique of Castoriadis

    Open AccessDavid Ames Curtis, Andreas KalyvasARTICLEPolitical Theory1998References: 3

    Reponse a la critique de l'oeuvre psychanalytique et politique de Castoriadis developpee par E. V. Wolfenstein (in «Political theory», 24, 1996, pp. 706-28) dans le cadre de son compte-rendu de l'ouvrage de J. Whitebook intitule «Perversion and utopia» (1995). Examinant la triple distinction du soi (psyche, individu social, sujet), ainsi que la question de l'absence du terme eurocentrisme chez Withebook, l'A. montre que la critique de Wolfenstein…

  • World in fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination

    Cornelius Castoriadis, David Ames CurtisBOOKWorld in fragments1997

  • Reflections on Three Ravensbrücks

    Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pierre Vidal‐naquet et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1997

    Research Article| October 01 1997 Reflections on Three Ravensbrücks Pierre Vidal-Naquet; Pierre Vidal-Naquet Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David Ames Curtis David Ames Curtis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (4): 881–894. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-4-881 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citatio…

  • Sade: The Boudoir and the City

    Claude Lefort, David Ames CurtisARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1996

    Research Article| October 01 1996 Sade: The Boudoir and the City Claude Lefort; Claude Lefort Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David Ames Curtis David Ames Curtis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 1009–1028. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-1009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Claude Lef…

  • Philosophical Interrogation and Creation of Democracy: Iran Confronts Modern Destiny

    Open AccessRamin Jahanbegloo, David Ames CurtisARTICLEThesis Eleven1992

  • Marx against the Marxists: Catholic uses of the young Marx in the Frontpopulaire period (1934-1938

    Open AccessDavid Curtis, David Ames CurtisARTICLEFrench Cultural Studies1991

  • Joel Kovel, In Nicaragua (London, Free Association Books, 1988)

    Open AccessDavid Ames CurtisARTICLEThesis Eleven1990

  • A Class and State Analysis of Henry Sidgwick's Utilitarianism

    Open AccessDavid Ames CurtisARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism1986