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A Society Adrift - Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997 (Paperback)
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A Society Adrift - Interviews and Debates, 1974-1997 (Paperback)
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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 résumé 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domination, and, above all, the population has withdrawn from the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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