Autonomy and modern liberal democracy
From Castoriadis to Gauchet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natalie J Doyle (Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 331-347 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431012440866 |
| OpenAlex | W2017217340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Marcel Gauchet's recently published theory of democracy sheds light on the way his understanding of modernity emerged from Castoriadis's notion of autonomy but also deepened it by contextualizing it within a discussion of modern historicity. Modern autonomy means re-shaping the world through a new, transformative, form of power that draws on humanity's capacity for imaginary creation. Gauchet's theory of modernity, however, rejects the possibility of radical historical creation. Faithful to the teachings of structuralism, it explores the structural conditions behind the genesis of modern power, which favoured the emergence of a new societal form that produces its own future. Encompassing capitalism, Gauchet's modern power proposes an essentially paradoxical definition of modern democracy that stresses its essentially liberal dimension neglected by Castoriadis. In modern democracy, humans make their own history by liberating individual subjectivities but this deprives them of the means to direct history: liberalism goes against the aspirations to collective sovereignty
Historicity (philosophy · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory · Political Theory and Influence
La Révolution des droits de l'homme
World in Fragments
La Révolution des pouvoirs
La condition politique
Domains and Divisions of European History
The Imaginary Institution of Society
The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy
Democracy as Procedure and Democracy as Regime
Does the Idea of Revolution Still Make Sense
Democracy as Socio-Cultural Project of Individual and Collective Sovereignty
Institution of Society and Religion
Redefining the Unconscious
Les tâches de la philosophie politique
Re-Imagining Castoriadis's Psychic Monad
From Ecology To Autonomy
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Disenchantment of the World
The Gift
The Savage Mind
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |