The Greek Imaginary

From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983

Cornelius Castoriadis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7532-7 (ISBN)

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This book collects 12 previously untranslated lectures by Castoriadis from 1982 to 1983. Castoriadis focuses on the interconnection between philosophy and democracy and the way both emerge within a self-critical imaginary already in development in the work of early Greek poets and Presocratic philosophers.
Displaying both mastery of the relevant scholarship and original interpretation, he reveals the birth of a society that　would place its highest value in calling itself and its institutions into question. He argues that this spirit would develop　directly into the twin signatures of the Greek world, namely radical philosophy, on the one hand, and radical democratic practices, on the other.　
Like no previous interpreter, Castoriadis allows us to feel the existential need, already present in the earliest Greek thinkers, to question the significance of human existence and to share in shaping its meaning. The Greeks not only did this, he argues, they also began the equally important work of establishing the institutions to support such a project.

Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a Greek-French philosopher and author of a large corpus on the topics of ontology, politics, psychoanalysis, and several other fields. Immigrating to France after World War II, he co-founded the political group Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-1967), worked in economics, practiced as a psychoanalyst, and eventually served from 1980-1995 as director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. John Garner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of The Emerging Good in Plato’s Philebus (Northwestern University Press, 2017). Has also translated Democracy and Relativism: A Debate by Cornelius Castoriadis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and co-translated Postscript on Insignificance: Dialogues with Cornelius Castoriadis (Continuum, 2011). María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of New Mexico

Foreword to the English Translation by John V. Garner (2022)

Editors’ Introduction by Enrique Escobar, Myrto Gondicas, and Pascal Vernay (2004); translated by María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta

Seminars 1982-1983 by Cornelius Castoriadis, translated by John V. Garner

I. Seminar from November 10, 1982

II. Seminar from November 17, 1982

III. Seminar from November 24, 1982

IV. Seminar from December 1, 1982

V. Seminar from December 15, 1982

VI. Seminar from January 5, 1983

VII. Seminar from January 12, 1983

VIII. Seminar from January 26, 1983

IX. Seminar from February 2, 1983 (lost)

X. Seminar from February 16, 1983

XI. Seminar from February 23, 1983

XII. Seminar from March 2, 1983

XIII. Seminar from March 9, 1983

Supplemental Materials (1979-1999) translated by María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta

Appendix A: Reports on Teaching by Cornelius Castoriadis (1980-82 and 1982-84)

Appendix B: Political Thinking by Cornelius Castoriadis (1979)

Appendix C: Castoriadis and Ancient Greece by Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1999)

Index of Key Terms

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2023
Übersetzer	John Garner, María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4744-7532-9 / 1474475329
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-7532-7 / 9781474475327
Zustand	Neuware