The late CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS (1922-1997), a Greek-French political thinker and longtime militant, as well as economist, practicing psychoanalyst, and philosopher, former Director of Studies at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, has been published extensively in English, including The Imaginary Institution of Society; World in Fragments; Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination; and Figures of the Thinkable. Translator HELEN ARNOLD participated for several years in the "Socialisme ou Barbarie" political group along with Castoriadis, co-founder of the group. She has also translated his Figures of the Thinkable.

"A gateway to Castoriadis' adventurous and open-ended way of thinking, his tireless attempts to envision the imperceptible future." -- -Stathis Gourgouris Columbia University "All the material in A Society Adrift, a posthumous collection of lectures and writings by Castoriadis, appeared well after that upheaval. The earliest of the texts gathered here, a long interview from 1974, is an extensive political and intellectual autobiography covering the SOUB years and just beyond. It is followed by the transcript of a 1982 radio discussion that provides an excellent introduction to Castoriadis's subsequent philosophical and psychoanalytic work." -Bookforum

The late CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS (1922-1997), a Greek-French political thinker and longtime militant, as well as economist, practicing psychoanalyst, and philosopher, former Director of Studies at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, has been published extensively in English, including The Imaginary Institution of Society; World in Fragments; Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination; and Figures of the Thinkable. Translator HELEN ARNOLD participated for several years in the "Socialisme ou Barbarie" political group along with Castoriadis, co-founder of the group. She has also translated his Figures of the Thinkable.

"A gateway to Castoriadis' adventurous and open-ended way of thinking, his tireless attempts to envision the imperceptible future." -- -Stathis Gourgouris Columbia University "All the material in A Society Adrift, a posthumous collection of lectures and writings by Castoriadis, appeared well after that upheaval. The earliest of the texts gathered here, a long interview from 1974, is an extensive political and intellectual autobiography covering the SOUB years and just beyond. It is followed by the transcript of a 1982 radio discussion that provides an excellent introduction to Castoriadis's subsequent philosophical and psychoanalytic work." -Bookforum

The late CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS (1922-1997), a Greek-French political thinker and longtime militant, as well as economist, practicing psychoanalyst, and philosopher, former Director of Studies at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, has been published extensively in English, including The Imaginary Institution of Society; World in Fragments; Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination; and Figures of the Thinkable. Translator HELEN ARNOLD participated for several years in the "Socialisme ou Barbarie" political group along with Castoriadis, co-founder of the group. She has also translated his Figures of the Thinkable.

"A gateway to Castoriadis' adventurous and open-ended way of thinking, his tireless attempts to envision the imperceptible future." -- -Stathis Gourgouris Columbia University "All the material in A Society Adrift, a posthumous collection of lectures and writings by Castoriadis, appeared well after that upheaval. The earliest of the texts gathered here, a long interview from 1974, is an extensive political and intellectual autobiography covering the SOUB years and just beyond. It is followed by the transcript of a 1982 radio discussion that provides an excellent introduction to Castoriadis's subsequent philosophical and psychoanalytic work." -Bookforum