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A Society Adrift - Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997 (Hardcover)
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A Society Adrift - Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997 (Hardcover)
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This posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers
given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997 is a lively, direct
introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his
radically critical stance. It provides a clear, handy resume of his
political ideas, in advance of their times and profoundly relevant
to today's world. For this political thinker and longtime militant
(co-founder with Claude Lefort of the revolutionary group
"Socialisme ou Barbarie"), economist, psychoanalyst, and
philosopher, two endless interrogations-how to understand the world
and life in society-were intertwined with his own life and combats.
An important chapter discusses the history of "Socialisme ou
Barbarie" (1949-1967); in it, Castoriadis presents the views he
defended, in that group, on a number of subjects: a critique of
Marxism and of the Soviet Union, the bureaucratization of society
and of the workers' movement, and the primacy of individual and
collective autonomy. Another chapter presents the concept, central
to his thinking, of "imaginary significations" as what make a
society "cohere." Castoriadis constantly returns to the question of
democracy as the never-finished, deliberate creation by the people
of societal institutions, analyzing its past and its future in the
Western world. He scathingly criticizes "representative" democracy
and develops a conception of direct democracy extending to all
spheres of social life. He wonders about the chances of achieving
freedom and autonomy-those requisites of true democracy-in a world
of endless, meaningless accumulation of material goods, where the
mechanisms for governing society have disintegrated, the
relationship with nature is reduced to one of destructive
domination, and, above all, the population has withdrawn from the
public sphere: a world dominated by hobbies and lobbies-"a society
adrift."
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