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World in Fragments - Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis and the Imagination (Paperback)
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World in Fragments - Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis and the Imagination (Paperback)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics S.
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This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the
most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary
thought. Starting from an inquiry that grows out of the specific
context of a society that is experiencing uncertainty as to its
ways of living and being, its goals, its values, and its knowledge,
one that has been incapable, so far, of adequately understanding
the crisis it is undergoing, Castoriadis sets as his task the
elucidation of this crisis and its conditions.
The book is in four parts: Koinonia, Polis, Psyche, Logos. The
opening section begins with a general introduction to the author's
views on being, time, creation, and the imaginary institution of
society and continues with reflections on the role of the
individual psyche in racist thinking and acting and on the retreat
from autonomy to generalized conformity in postmodernism. The
second part is a critique of those who now belittle and distort the
meaning of May '68 and other movements of the sixties as well as
the French Revolution. The fate of the "project of autonomy" is
considered here in the light of the Greek and the modern "political
imaginary," the "pulverization of Marxism-Leninism," and a recent
alleged "return of ethics" (Habermas, Rawls, McIntyre,
Solzhenitsyn, Havel).
In part three, Castoriadis shows how psychoanalysis, like politics,
can contribute to the project of individual and collective autonomy
and challenges Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and others in his report
on "The State of the Subject Today." This section also presents his
most current lines of psychoanalytic research and thought on the
"human nonconscious" in the body and on the problem of the
psychoanalysis of psychotic subjects, where an alternative
coherence on the level of meaning offers a constant challenge to
the task of psychoanalytic interpretation.
Castoriadis's highly original investigations of the unruly place of
the imagination in Western philosophy round out the book. He
examines how Aristotle's original aporetic discovery and cover-up
of the imagination were repeated by Kant, Freud, Heidegger, and
Merleau-Ponty.
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