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Thinking with Castoriadis: Antipodean Essays
Series: - Social and Critical Theory, Volume: 35
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Thinking with Castoriadis explores the work of the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis who developed a ground-breaking philosophy of imagination and social creation—a theory of how societies come into being. The volume explores the many-sided implications of Castoriadis’ social thought and the way it intersects with and diverges from other major currents of social theory and philosophy: civilizational, urbanist, Hellenist, meta-historical, hermeneutical, phenomenological, ontological, antinomical, and Kantian. Contributors to the volume are long-time participants in an annual conference on Castoriadis’ work that ran for 15 years in Sydney and Melbourne.
Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences at La Trobe University and formerly Professor of Arts and Society at James Cook University. His books include Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity (2023), The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (2020), Universities and Innovation Economies: The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial Society (2015) and Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (2001).
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Castoriadis in the Antipodes
Peter Murphy
2 Castoriadis and the Eclipse of the Symbolic
Suzi Adams
3 Re-Imagining Imagination: from Castoriadis to Kant to Ourselves
John Rundell
4 Three Aspects of Cornelius Castoriadis’ Critique of Postmodernity
Vrasidas Karalis
5 Modern Imaginaries and Social Reflexivity: Projects of Collective Self-Determination and Their Tensions
Craig Browne
6 Castoriadis in the City: Placing Metropolitan and Urban Imaginaries
Jeremy Smith
7 The Hermeneutic Imagination and Imaginary Creation: Ourselves, Others and Autonomy
John Rundell
8 Castoriadis’ Greek-Western Meta-History and the Epic Mind: a View from the Antipodes
Peter Murphy
Appendix A
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Castoriadis in the Antipodes
Peter Murphy
2 Castoriadis and the Eclipse of the Symbolic
Suzi Adams
3 Re-Imagining Imagination: from Castoriadis to Kant to Ourselves
John Rundell
4 Three Aspects of Cornelius Castoriadis’ Critique of Postmodernity
Vrasidas Karalis
5 Modern Imaginaries and Social Reflexivity: Projects of Collective Self-Determination and Their Tensions
Craig Browne
6 Castoriadis in the City: Placing Metropolitan and Urban Imaginaries
Jeremy Smith
7 The Hermeneutic Imagination and Imaginary Creation: Ourselves, Others and Autonomy
John Rundell
8 Castoriadis’ Greek-Western Meta-History and the Epic Mind: a View from the Antipodes
Peter Murphy
Appendix A
Index
This volume is for undergraduate honours students, post-graduate students and academic faculty members working in the fields of Social Philosophy and Social Theory, and in Modern Greek Studies.