Philosophy, politics, autonomy
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Philosophy, politics, autonomy
（Odéon / Josué Harari and Vincent Descombes, general editors）
Oxford University Press, 1991
- : pbk
- : cloth
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Some of the essays have been translated from French by the editor
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These ten essays by Castoriadis, one of Europe's foremost social and political thinkers, include his latest contributions to philosophy, politics, social thought, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. The author examines the 'co-birth' of philosophy and politics to show how the Greeks' questioning of ideas and institutions gave rise to the 'project of autonomy.' The 'end of philosophy' proclaimed by Postmodernism, he warns, would mean the end of this project. That end is now hastened by the lethal expansion of technoscience, the waning of political and social conflict, and the resignation of intellectuals who blindly defend Western culture as it is or who merely 'deconstruct' it as it has been.
Table of Contents
- 1: Intellectuals and History 2: The "End of Philosophy"? 3: The Social-Historical: Mode of Being, Problems of Knowledge 4: Individual, Society, Rationality, History 5: The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy 6: The Nature and Value of Equality 7: Power, Politics, Autonomy 8: Reflections on "Rationality" and "Development"
- Presentation and Response to Critics 9: The Crisis of Culture and the State 10: Dead End? Bibliography Index
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