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This book collects 12 previously untranslated lectures by Castoriadis from 1982 to 1983. Castoriadis focuses on the interconnection between philosophy and democracy and the way both emerge within a self-critical imaginary already in development in the work of early Greek poets and Presocratic philosophers.
Displaying both mastery of the relevant scholarship and original interpretation, he reveals the birth of a society that would place its highest value in calling itself and its institutions into question. He argues that this spirit would develop directly into the twin signatures of the Greek world, namely radical philosophy, on the one hand, and radical democratic practices, on the other.
Like no previous interpreter, Castoriadis allows us to feel the existential need, already present in the earliest Greek thinkers, to question the significance of human existence and to share in shaping its meaning. The Greeks not only did this, he argues, they also began the equally important work of establishing the institutions to support such a project.
Contents
Foreword to the English Translation by John V. Garner (2022)
Editors' Introduction by Enrique Escobar, Myrto Gondicas, and Pascal Vernay (2004); translated by María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta
Seminars 1982-1983 by Cornelius Castoriadis, translated by John V. Garner
I. Seminar from November 10, 1982
II. Seminar from November 17, 1982
III. Seminar from November 24, 1982
IV. Seminar from December 1, 1982
V. Seminar from December 15, 1982
VI. Seminar from January 5, 1983
VII. Seminar from January 12, 1983
VIII. Seminar from January 26, 1983
IX. Seminar from February 2, 1983 (lost)
X. Seminar from February 16, 1983
XI. Seminar from February 23, 1983
XII. Seminar from March 2, 1983
XIII. Seminar from March 9, 1983
Supplemental Materials (1979-1999) translated by María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta
Appendix A: Reports on Teaching by Cornelius Castoriadis (1980-82 and 1982-84)
Appendix B: Political Thinking by Cornelius Castoriadis (1979)
Appendix C: Castoriadis and Ancient Greece by Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1999)
Index of Key Terms