Vrasidas Karalis

Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy Vrasidas Karalis

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos Chair in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Byzantine historiography, Greek political life, Greek Cinema, European cinema and contemporary political philosophy. He has edited three volumes on modern European political philosophy, especially on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis. His recent publications include "A History of Greek Cinema" (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2013) and "Greek Cinema from Cacoyannis to the Present" (Forthcoming by I. B. Tauris)."Table of Contents: Part 1: Essays by Cornelius Castoriadis Author s Introduction to the Publication of the 1988 Edition Cornelius Castoriadis "Translated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Stephens" 1. Directions of the Journal Sociological and Ethical Archive Cornelius Castoriadis "Translated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Stephens" 2. On the Work of Max Weber Cornelius Castoriadis "Translated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Stephens" 3. Obituary for A[gis] Stinas Cornelius Castoriadis "Translated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Stephens" Part 2: Essays on Castoriadis 4. The Choral Ode from Antigone: [ ] "Refracted Through Cornelius Castoriadis and Martin Heidegger Anthony Stephens" 5. Aesthetics and Autonomy "Andrew Cooper" 6. Philosophy and Theatre: Cornelius Castoriadis on the Imaginary Structure of Meanings in Theatre and Performance "George P. Pefanis" 7. Bureaucratic Capitalism and the work of Cornelius Castoriadis "Peter Murphy" 8. Contexts of Capitalism: From the unlimited extension of rational mastery to civilizational varieties of accumulation and economic imagination. "Jeremy Smith" 9. Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Castoriadis and the Politics of Heterodox Marxism "Simon Tormey" 10. Between Creative Democracy and Democratic Creativity "Craig Browne" 11. Imagining Democracy "Jeff Klooger" 12. Autonomy, Oligarchy, Statesman: Weber, Castoriadis and the Fragility of Politics "John Rundell" 13. Radical Democratic Subjectivity: Possibilities and Limits "Toula Nicolacopoulos and George Vassilacopoulos""Publisher Marketing: Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) is a Greek-born French philosopher. In the first part of this volume, his most significant essays are translated to present young Castoriadis' philosophical interpretations, while the second part highlights aspects of his mature philosophy.