What is to be thought? What is to be done
The polyscopic thought of Kostas Axelos and Cornelius Castoriadis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathalie Karagiannis (Barcelona, Spain, corresponding author), Peter Wagner (0000-0003-4416-718X, ICREA and University of Barcelona, Spain) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-417 |
| 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 Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431012440869 |
| OpenAlex | W2099555909 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Kostas Axelos and Cornelius Castoriadis are among the most inspiring thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. They each combine comprehensive philosophy with social and political theory, and a broad view on human history with a critical diagnosis of the present, with nuanced observations on our current condition-characteristics, rare during this period, that this article describes as polyscopic thought. Castoriadis is widely known as the philosopher of 'autonomy', of the human capacity to give oneself one's own law; his diagnosis of the present focused on the weakening of this capacity in contemporary capitalism and democracy. Axelos, in turn, is a thinker of the 'planetary age' in which the human pretence to master the world and one's own fate withers away in the face of the predominance of 'technique'. This essay connects and contrasts the work of the two thinkers trying to understand the differences and to uncover underlying commonalities. Significantly, it suggests that both scholars saw a need to rethink key concerns in philosophy and the social sciences with a view to better grasp what awaits human beings in the current world and what can be done about it
Autonomy · Capitalism · Democracy · Epistemology · Human science · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |