The Imaginary Institution of Society

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MIT Press, 1987 - 418 páginas

This is one of the most original and important works of contemporaryEuropean thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today.

This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today.

Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis of the unique character of the social-historical world and its relations to the individual, to language, and to nature. He argues that most traditional conceptions of society and history overlook the essential feature of the social-historical world, namely that this world is not articulated once and for all but is in each case the creation of the society concerned. In emphasizing the element of creativity, Castoriadis opens the way for rethinking political theory and practice in terms of the autonomous and explicit self-institution of society.

 

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Preface
1
A Provisional Assessment
9
Marxist Theory of History
15
Marxist Philosophy of History
41
The Two Elements of Marxism and their Historical
56
Theory and Revolutionary Project
71
A First Approach
115
The SocialHistorical
167
Legein and Teukhein
221
Individuals and Things
273
Social Imaginary Significations
340
the World
359
Notes
374
Index
406
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Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of Society, co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group and "philosopher of autonomy."

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