David Ames Curtis is an independent translator and writer. He is based in Paris.

"The Castoriadis Reader, with representative extracts from almost fifty years of political and philosophical writing, reflects his long march from Marx back to Aristotle." Scott McLemmee, Lingua Franca "When so many pay superficial tribute to false prophets, how much better to pay serious attention to this true thinker." Nicolas Walter, New Statesman "For those unfamiliar with the thought of Castoriadis, reading his works for the first time is to encounter one of the most original and creative figures of the last half of the twentieth century." David Wallace, Topia

• Foreword viiAcknowledgements xviAbbreviations xviii1.'The Only Way to Find out If You Can Swim Is to Get into the Water’: An Introductory Interview (1974) 12. Presentation of Socialisme ou Barbarie: An Organ of Critique and Revolutionary Orientation (1949) 353. On the Content of Socialism (1955-1957): Excerpts 40From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy (1955) 40On the Content of Socialism, II (1957) 494. Recommencing the Revolution (1964) 1065. Marxism and Revolutionary Theory (1964-65). Excerpts 139Marxism: A Provisional Assessment 139Theory and Revolutionary Project 1466. The Social Imaginary and the Institution (1975). Excerpt. The Social-Historical 1967. The Social Regime in Russia (1978) 2188. From Ecology to Autonomy (1980) 2399. The Crisis of Western Societies (1982) 25310. The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy (1983) 26711. The Logic of Magmas and the Question of Autonomy (1983) 29012. Radical Imagination and the Social Instituting Imaginary (1994) 31913. Culture in a Democratic Society (1994) 33814. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (1996) 34915. Done and To Be Done (1989) 361Index 418