Castoriadis, racist and anti-racist ontologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4482053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toula Nicolacopoulos (0000-0003-1057-1176, La Trobe University, corresponding author), George Vassilacopoulos (La Trobe University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 161 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-88 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513620975999 |
| OpenAlex | W3108507969 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Castoriadis explains racism as a mode of hatred of the other and as a feature of the self-institution of heteronomous societies built on ethnocentrism. At the level of the psychical human being he identifies two forms of racist fixation on others: hatred of the other as the flip-side of self-love and as the other side of self-hatred, which he analyses, respectively, as a mode of pseudo-reasoning and as unconscious desire. We argue that attention to the ontology that underpins the modern European subject's epistemological deployment of racism in the context of coloniality reveals the limits and a blindspot of Castoriadis's analysis
Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Hatred · Ontology · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Anthropology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci
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| Highly cited | No |
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