The article informs that the concept of autonomy has been a central normative principle in
modern political thought and a constitutive feature of democratic politics. Today, however, it …

Cornelius Castoriadis and the Project of Radical Autonomy analyses the philosophy of
Greek-born French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis. A leading member of the influential …

Despite the increased attention to his work since his death in 1997, Cornelius Castoriadis
remains a rather marginal figure in contemporary theoretical and political debate …

Marcel Gauchet's recently published theory of democracy sheds light on the way his
understanding of modernity emerged from Castoriadis's notion of autonomy but also …

Only of late has the Anglophone reading public become aware of Cornelius Castoriadis and
his five decades of work. Despite the pioneering efforts of the British journal Solidarity to …

This article discusses the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, an important political thinker and
theorist of democracy. Castoriadis developed not one but two theories of democracy based …

The present volume is offered to readers as a public service in the hopes of encouraging
reflection and action aimed at deepening, and realizing, the project of individual and …

DH: In reply to my complaints about the difficulties of teaching philosophy, Castoriadis once
proposed his ideal of a philosophical education. The entering student would follow a normal …

One of the most significant dimensions of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis is its attempt to
interlink the notions of democracy and social creativity. Democracy, in his opinion, is the …

A reading of Solon's elegy to eunomia through Castoriadis's seminal theory of autonomy as
the explicit and reflective self-institution of society can elucidate the question of what …