Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Byzantine historiography, Greek political life, Greek Cinema, European cinema and contemporary political philosophy.He has edited three volumes on modern European political philosophy, especially on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis. His recent publications include A History of Greek Cinema (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2013) and Greek Cinema from Cacoyannis to the Present (Forthcoming by I.B. Tauris).

• Part 1: Essays by Cornelius CastoriadisAuthor’s Introduction to the Publication of the 1988 EditionCornelius CastoriadisTranslated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Stephens1. Directions of the Journal Sociological and Ethical ArchiveCornelius CastoriadisTranslated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Stephens2. On the Work of Max Weber Cornelius CastoriadisTranslated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Stephens3. Obituary for A[gis] StinasCornelius CastoriadisTranslated by Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony StephensPart 2: Essays on Castoriadis4. The Choral Ode from Antigone: “πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ […]” Refracted Through Cornelius Castoriadis and Martin HeideggerAnthony Stephens5. Aesthetics and AutonomyAndrew Cooper6. Philosophy and Theatre: Cornelius Castoriadis on the Imaginary Structure of Meanings in Theatre and PerformanceGeorge P. Pefanis7. Bureaucratic Capitalism and the work of Cornelius CastoriadisPeter Murphy8. Contexts of Capitalism: From the ‘unlimited extension of “rational mastery”’ to civilizational varieties of accumulation and economic imagination.Jeremy Smith9. Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Castoriadis and the Politics of Heterodox MarxismSimon Tormey10. Between Creative Democracy and Democratic CreativityCraig Browne11. Imagining DemocracyJeff Klooger12. Autonomy, Oligarchy, Statesman: Weber, Castoriadis and the Fragility of PoliticsJohn Rundell13. Radical Democratic Subjectivity: Possibilities and LimitsToula Nicolacopoulos and George Vassilacopoulos