Greek Imaginary

From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983

AvCornelius Castoriadis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Offers in English for the first time philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis's earliest surviving lectures on the ancient Greeks Includes renowned scholar Pierre Vidal-Naquet's essay, 'Castoriadis and Ancient Greece'" (1999), which provides an introduction and memorial to Castoriadis's researchIncludes Castoriadis's previously untranslated, substantive essay, "'Political Thought'" (1979), which presages many of the key themes in the seminarsIncludes Castoriadis's thematic reports on his teaching in the 1980-1984 seminarsIncludes an "Editors' Introduction" plus extensive editorial commentary on the seminars and an Analytic Table of Contents provided by the academic editor of the French edition of the volume (from 2004)Includes a "Foreword" by the translator, which highlights key terms in the seminarsThis 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."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:644 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Upplaga:23148
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474475327
Översättare:Garner, John, Garrido Sierralta, María-Constanza, Garner, John (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of West Georgia), Garrido Sierralta, Maria-Constanza (PhD student in Philosophy, University of New Mexico)

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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

Recensioner i media

As with any philosophical piece, the translation of philosophical thought is a difficult endeavor. This translation seems to be complete; nothing having been omitted from the content of the original book. The terms used are accurate, and depict the true meaning of the original work, meaning there is consistency in the terminology, while the readability of the chapters remains intact, and the reader’s experience in reading the piece can be considered to have a natural flow, similar to the experience of a reader of the original piece.

Innehållsförteckning

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 SierraltaSeminars 1982-1983 by Cornelius Castoriadis, translated by John V. GarnerI. Seminar from November 10, 1982 II. Seminar from November 17, 1982III. Seminar from November 24, 1982IV. Seminar from December 1, 1982V. Seminar from December 15, 1982VI. Seminar from January 5, 1983VII. Seminar from January 12, 1983VIII. Seminar from January 26, 1983IX. Seminar from February 2, 1983 (lost)X. Seminar from February 16, 1983XI. Seminar from February 23, 1983XII. Seminar from March 2, 1983XIII. Seminar from March 9, 1983Supplemental Materials (1979-1999) translated by María-Constanza Garrido SierraltaAppendix 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