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Posted by Ian Pirie on January 29, 19102 at 04:38:51:
In Reply to: cornelius castoriadis - reinventing revolution? posted by ian pirie on April 05, 19100 at 01:06:08:
: I am embarking (!) on an attempt to write a paper,
: with the above title, for our University Department.
: A former member of the English group Solidarity, I
: now want to spread Castoriadis's ideas in the
: academic community. Searching for primary and secondary
: sources, and fellow-travellers..(Not sure how I arrived
: on this ship - feel as if I was press-ganged, but
: it's probably just that I am totally new to the Web).
: My central concern: do Castoriadis's ideas have a
: genuinely revolutionary content, i.e. the radical
: imaginary, or does this in practice simply support
: reformism and pluralism??? Thanks for your time,
: wherever you are!! Ian.
I have now written the first part of my paper -
it summarises how Castoriadis developed his ideas
from Trotskism to a new revolutionary perspective,
which is based on the view that we "institute"
society ourselves, thanks to our ability to
"imagine".
Society must become "autonomous", that is
creating its own norms and rules, because this is
the only kind of society that is compatible with
our ability to imagine.
I am beginning a second part which will go more
deeply into Castoriadis's psychological theory,
and in particular the idea of the "social imaginary".
Happy to exchange views with anyone else interested.
Best web site I know of on Castoridais:
http://aleph.lib.ohio-state.edu~bcase/castoriadis