Cornelius Castoriadis

Details

Nationality

Greek-French

Classifications

Holder

Communal intergenerational

Source of authority

Reason

Subject

Human centred

Political position

Subaltern resistant

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] Greek-French philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst. Co-founder of the group and journal Socialisme ou Barbarie. His central work, The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975), argues that every society creates itself ex nihilo through a 'social imaginary' — a web of significations, values and institutions that is not derivable from rationality or nature. He distinguishes the 'radical imaginary' (the creative, instituting power of the social-historical) from the 'instituted imaginary' (the crystallised forms a society treats as given), and makes 'autonomy' — a society's lucid self-institution — his guiding political project.

Connections

• associated with The Demos
• proposed The Social Imaginary
• proposed The Radical Imaginary
• proposed The Instituted Imaginary
• contests The Instituted Imaginary
• articulates The Social Imaginary
• influenced Charles Taylor

Referenced by

• Karl Marx influenced

Sources

1. n.d..
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