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The Castoriadis Reader
Author(s): David Curtis
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication Date: 23 May 1997
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 496 pages
- ISBN-10: 1557867046
- ISBN-13: 9781557867049
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
“When so many pay superficial tribute to false prophets, how much better to pay serious attention to this true thinker.” Nicolas Walter, New Statesman
“For those unfamiliar with the thought of Castoriadis, reading his works for the first time is to encounter one of the most original and creative figures of the last half of the twentieth century.” David Wallace, Topia
From the Inside Flap
For both first-time readers and those already familiar with his work, The Castoriadis Reader provides a thorough overview that encompasses every aspect of his thought: Socialisme ou Barbarie trenchant critique of Russian totalitarianism and of “modern capitalism” in the West which paved the way for an alternative left-wing politics and inspired the 1968 student-worker rebellion in France; the development of ideas of a “project of autonomy” and “the imaginary institution of society”; and a representative selection of recent texts on ecology, aesthetics, the “crisis of Western Societies”, the “radical imagination”, the philosophical significance of psychoanalysis, an alternative interview offers a historical overview of Castoriadis’s life and work. In a concluding chapter that presents replies to his international critics, the author further clarifies his ideas while opening new paths for the creation of an “autonomous society.”
David Ames Curtis’s selection of classical and contemporary material charts Castoriadis’s contributions to the revolutionizing of thought and society over the past five decades. His Foreword and a thorough listing of Castoriadis’s major texts provide the reader with the necessary background for further explorations.
From the Back Cover
For both first-time readers and those already familiar with his work, The Castoriadis Reader provides a thorough overview that encompasses every aspect of his thought: Socialisme ou Barbarie trenchant critique of Russian totalitarianism and of “modern capitalism” in the West which paved the way for an alternative left-wing politics and inspired the 1968 student-worker rebellion in France; the development of ideas of a “project of autonomy” and “the imaginary institution of society”; and a representative selection of recent texts on ecology, aesthetics, the “crisis of Western Societies”, the “radical imagination”, the philosophical significance of psychoanalysis, an alternative interview offers a historical overview of Castoriadis’s life and work. In a concluding chapter that presents replies to his international critics, the author further clarifies his ideas while opening new paths for the creation of an “autonomous society.”
David Ames Curtis’s selection of classical and contemporary material charts Castoriadis’s contributions to the revolutionizing of thought and society over the past five decades. His Foreword and a thorough listing of Castoriadis’s major texts provide the reader with the necessary background for further explorations.
