The essays that compile this short book have been written in the last couple of years, but
only recently I took the decision to gather them together into a pamphlet. I decided to do so …

I think that all those interested in my current work will find in these writings the problematic
whose intensity defined the whole of my subsequent trajectory. First of all, certainly, the …

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 …

This paper presents a biographical outline of the life of Cornelius Castoriadis and the
intersections between philosophy, politics and experience that shaped his vibrant and …

By exploring the concepts of'crisis' and'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-
examination of the political and social thought of Cornelius Castoriadis in light of the current …

On 26 December 1997, Cornelius Castoriadis died in Paris at the age of seventy-five. In a
review of his last book, Robert Redeker laments that" one of the most important political and …

This indication of Castoriadis' origins is important for a double reason. First, I simply have to
assert here the centrality of the Greek republican experience in his thought without …

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 …

Reading the work of Cornelius Castoriadis is inescapably to be in the presence of a
powerfully distinctive voice and temperament: he speaks his mind. Since in politics all we …

Cornelius Castoriadis was a man of tremendous import on the European continent. A
seminal social and political thinker and radical anti-communist, Castoriadis cofounded the …