Figures of the thinkable
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Figures of the thinkable
（Meridian : crossing aesthetics / Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, editors）
Stanford University Press, 2007
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Figures du pensable
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this posthumous collection of writings, Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) pursues his incisive analysis of modern society, the philosophical basis of our ability to change it, and the points of intersection between his many approaches to this theme. His main philosophical postulate, that the human subject and society are not predetermined, asserts the primacy of creation and the possibility of creative, autonomous activity in every domain. This argument is combined with penetrating political and social criticism, opening numerous avenues of critical thought and action.
The book's wide-ranging topics include the core worldview of ancient Athens, where the idea of self-creation and self-limitation made democracy possible; the wealth of poetic resources; a deconstruction of the so-called rationality of capitalism and of the current conception of democracy, along with a discussion of what a radical, revolutionary project means today; the role of what he calls the radical imagination in the creation of both societal institutions and history; the roots of hate; a psychoanalytic view of human development torn between heteronomy and autonomy; the role of education in forming autonomous individuals; and notions of chaos, space, and number.
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface to the French Edition iii Notice iii @toc1:Poi'sis @toc2:Aeschylean Anthropogony and Sophoclean Self-Creation of Anthropos 000 Notes on Some Poetic Resources 000 @toc1:Koin'nia @toc2:The "Rationality" of Capitalism 000 Imaginary and Imagination at the Crossroads 000 Primal Institution and Second-Order Institutions 000 @toc1:Polis @toc2:Heritage and Revolution 000 What Democracy? 000 @toc1:Psych' @toc2:The Psychical and Social Roots of Hate 000 Psyche and Education 000 Psychoanalysis: Its Situation and Limits 000 The Psyche and Society Anew 000 @toc1:Logos @toc2:The Social-Historical: Mode of Being and Problems of Knowledge 000 False and True Chaos 000 Remarks on Space and Number 000 @toc4:Appendix 000 Notes 000
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