Cornelius Castoriadis

Democracy and Relativism

A Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers an accessible intellectual dialogue on the very nature of critical thought and on its social and political translations. Castoriadis is pushed to address challenges raised by decolonial thought, by critiques of ethnocentrism, and broadly by the international context of radical critical thought.

Produktdetails

• Reinventing Critical Theory
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9781786610959
• ISBN-10: 1786610957
• Artikelnr.: 57132131

Autorenporträt

Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a political activist and author of a large corpus on topics of political philosophy, ontology, psychoanalysis, and economics. He co-founded the French political group Socialisme ou Barbarie (1949-1965), later worked as an economist and psychoanalyst, and served from 1980-1995 as director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction
Introduction to the French Edition, Jean-Louis Prat
Democracy and Relativism: A Debate
The Relativity of Relativism
The Political and Politics
Indetermination and Creation
The Condition for the Universalization of Western Values
Democracy
Glossary of Key Terms
Bibliography
Index