Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Editor's Introduction: Eros of Inquiry - An Aperçu of Castoriadis' Life and Work Gabriel Rockhill Part I:  Postscript on Insignificance Preface: Cornelius, Essential Dissident 1. No God, No Caesar, No Tribune!... Cornelius Castoriadis Interviewed by David Mermet Part II: Dialogues Preface: Introduction to Discussants 2. Rejoinders: Facing Modernity Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Octavio Paz 3. The Meaning of Psychoanalysis Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Jean-Luc Donnet 4. Life and Creation Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Francisco Varela 5. The Limits of Formalization Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Alain Connes 6. Breaking the Closure Cornelius Castoriadis in Dialogue with Robert Legros Selected Bibliography of Castoriadis' Books in English Index.

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A collection of interviews in which Cornelius Castoriadis discusses his key works and ideas.

About the Author

Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst. He taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is best known for The Imaginary Institution of Society (trans. Kathleen Blamey, MIT Press, 1998). He is widely recognized as one of the foremost European thinkers of the twentieth century.

Gabriel Rockhill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, USA. He also teaches at the Centre Parisien d'Etudes Critiques and the Collège International de Philosophie, France. He is the author of Logique de l'histoire: Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques (Editions Hermann, 2010) and Pour un historicisme radical: Entre esthétique et politique avec Rancière (Editions du Sandre, forthcoming).

Reviews

Reviewed in Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture Vol. 8/ No. 2/ Summer 2011.