A Society Adrift Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997 |
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| Author:
| Castoriadis, Cornelius
Gondicas, Myrto
Vernay, Pascal |
| Translator:
| Arnold, Helen |
| Editor:
| Escobar, Enrique |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-3093-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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This posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers is a lively, direct introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his radically critical stance. It provides a clear, handy r#65533;sum#65533; of Castoriadis's political ideas, in advance of their times and profoundly relevant to today's world. This political thinker and long-time militant (co-founder with Claude Lefort of the revolutionary group "Socialisme ou Barbarie"), economist,...
More DescriptionThis posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers is a lively, direct introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his radically critical stance. It provides a clear, handy r#65533;sum#65533; of Castoriadis's political ideas, in advance of their times and profoundly relevant to today's world.
This political thinker and long-time militant (co-founder with Claude Lefort of the revolutionary group "Socialisme ou Barbarie"), economist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher, constantly returns to the question of democracy as the never-finished, deliberate creation by the people of societal institutions, analyzing its past and its future in the Western world. He wonders about the chances of achieving freedom and autonomy in a world of endless, meaningless accumulation of material goods, where the mechanisms for governing society have disintegrated, the relationship with nature is reduced to one of destructive domination, and above all, the population has withdrawn from the public sphere: a world dominated by hobbies and lobbies-"a society adrift."