Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Society AdriftCondition: NewSubtitle: Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997ISBN-10: 0823230937EAN: 9780823230938ISBN: 9780823230938Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/04/2010Description: This posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997 is a lively, direct introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his radically critical stance. It provides a clear, handy résumé of his political ideas, in advance of their times and profoundly relevant to today’s world.For this political thinker and longtime militant (co-founder with Claude Lefort of the revolutionary group “Socialisme ou Barbarie”), economist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher, two endless interrogations—how to understand the world and life in society—were intertwined with his own life and combats.An important chapter discusses the history of “Socialisme ou Barbarie” (1949—1967); in it, Castoriadis presents the views he defended, in that group, on a number of subjects: a critique of Marxism and of the Soviet Union, the bureaucratization of society and of the workers’ movement, and the primacy of individual and collective autonomy. Another chapter presents the concept, central to his thinking, of “imaginary significations” as what make a society “cohere.”Castoriadis 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 scathingly criticizes “representative” democracy and develops a conception of direct democracy extending to all spheres of social life.He wonders about the chances of achieving freedom and autonomy—those requisites of true democracy—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the relationship with nature is reduced to one of destructive domination, and, above all, the population has withdrawn from the public sphere: a world dominated by hobbies and lobbies—”a society adrift.”Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Cornelius Castoriadis, Myrto Gondicas, Pascal VernayTranslator: Helen ArnoldContributor: Helen Arnold (Translated by), Enrique Escobar (Edited by)Genre: Literary CriticismTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: A Society Adrift
Title: A Society Adrift
Subtitle: Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997
ISBN-10: 0823230937
EAN: 9780823230938
ISBN: 9780823230938
Release Date: 01/04/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Helen Arnold
Contributor: Enrique Escobar (Edited by)
Edition: 2
Book Title: Society Adrift : Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Topic: Economic History, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, World / General, General, Political, Europe / General
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Pascal Vernay, Myrto Gondicas, Cornelius Castoriadis
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
