World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination [1st ed.] 0804727627, 0804727635

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World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination [1st ed.]
0804727627, 0804727635

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Cornelius Castoriadis; David Ames Curtis (ed.
transl.)

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Monde morcelé

Table of contents :
Part I. Koinonia: 1. The imaginary: creation in the social-historical domain
2. Reflections on racism
3. The retreat from autonomy: postmodernism as generalised conformism
Part II. Polis: 4. The movements of the sixties
5. The pulverisation of Marxism-Leninism
6. The revolution before the theologians: for a critical/political reflection on our history
7. The Greek and the modern political imaginary
8. The ethicists' new clothes
Part III. Psyche: 9. Psychoanalysis and politics
10. The state of the subject today
11. From the Monad to autonomy
12. The construction of the world in psychosis
Part IV. Logos: 13. The discover of the imagination
14. Logic, imagination, reflection
15. Merleau-Ponty and the weight of the ontological tradition
16. Institution of society and religion
17. Phusis and autonomy
18. The ontological import of the history of science
19. Time and creation
Appendix
Notes
Index.

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