Castoriadis at the limits of autonomy? Ecological worldhood and the hermeneutic of modernity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2397992
AutoresSuzi Adam, Suzi Adams (Flinders University, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume15
Fascículo3
Páginas313-329
Data de publicação2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431012440863
OpenAlexW2167664262
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas24

This article critically engages with Castoriadis's elucidation of autonomy. It does so by taking into account the implications of Castoriadis's enduring interest in the ecological devastation of the natural world, on the one hand, and the changing configuration of his philosophical anthropology, on the other-especially in regard to his reconsideration of the creativity of nature in the 1980s and the reconfiguration of the nomos and physis problematic. It contextualizes these movements in his thought within a broader hermeneutic of modernity that, following Johann Arnason, emphasizes the cultural currents of both Romanticism and the Enlightenment as constitutive of modernity as a field of tensions. In an extension of Arnason's elaboration, however, the present article argues that a latent opening towards an ecological worldhood is implicit to Castoriadis's hermeneutic of modernity that, conversely, also finds Castoriadis at the limits of autonomy

Art history · Autonomy · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Modernity · Political science · Romanticism · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics