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These ten essays by Castoriadis, one of Europe's foremost social and political thinkers, include his latest contributions to philosophy, politics, social thought, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. The author examines the 'co-birth' of philosophy and politics to show how the Greeks' questioning of ideas and institutions gave rise to the 'project of autonomy.' The 'end of philosophy' proclaimed by Postmodernism, he warns, would mean the end of this project. That end is now hastened by the lethal expansion of technoscience, the waning of political and social conflict, and the resignation of intellectuals who blindly defend Western culture as it is or who merely 'deconstruct' it as it has been.
1: Intellectuals and History2: The "End of Philosophy"?3: The Social-Historical: Mode of Being, Problems of Knowledge4: Individual, Society, Rationality, History5: The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy6: The Nature and Value of Equality7: Power, Politics, Autonomy8: Reflections on "Rationality" and "Development"; Presentation and Response to Critics9: The Crisis of Culture and the State10: Dead End?BibliographyIndex
I found the essays important, challenging, and timely, especially given the most recent political events. Michele Richman, University of Pennsylvania
P.W. Ed. Hochachka, T.P. Mommsen, Peter W. Hochachka, Canada) Mommsen, T.P. (University of Victoria, BC, Canada) Hochachka, Peter W. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, T. P. Mommsen, P. W. Hochachka