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587Imaginings, Narratives and Otherness: On the Critical Hermeneutics of Richard KearneyThesis Eleven 73 (1): 97-111. 2003.
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183The Jacobin Critique of Modernity: The Case of Petr TkachevThesis Eleven 27 (1): 125-151. 1990.
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182From The Shores Of Reason To The Horizon Of Meaning: Some Remarks On Habermas' And Castoriadis' Theories Of CultureThesis Eleven 22 (1): 5-24. 1989.
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122Rethinking imagination: culture and creativity (edited book)Routledge. 1994.Discusses the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed, and provides fascinating glimpses of the role of imagination in the creation and management of Modernity.
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103Review Essay: Charles Taylor and the Secularization ThesisCritical Horizons 11 (1): 119-132. 2010.Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), ISBN-13:978-0674- 02676-6; 874pp. This review essay concentrates on Charles Taylor's image of modernity
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61Re-reading Fichte’s Science of Knowledge after Castoriadis: The anthropological imagination and the radical imaginaryThesis Eleven 119 (1): 3-21. 2013.In many of his writings, Castoriadis argues that ‘the discovery of the imagination’ occurs in the works of Aristotle, Kant, Fichte, Freud, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. Although he has systematically encountered and interrogated the works of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Merleau-Ponty, the work of Fichte remains an enigmatic absence within the orbit of Castoriadis' work. This study is an attempt to address this enigma through a close reading of Fichte’s The Science of Knowledge.
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55Strangers, Citizens and Outsiders: Otherness, Multiculturalism and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary in Mobile SocietiesThesis Eleven 78 (1): 85-101. 2004.This article deploys a double conceptual framework. One frame is positioned through the ideas of absolute strangers and outsiders. The other frame develops out of, though is distinct from, the first, and refers to the disaggregated forms of modern citizenship. The citizen-as-absolute-stranger in addition to accruing political rights may also accrue social, economic or identity rights, or traverse wider relations between him or herself and other absolute strangers in either national or internatio…Read more
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54Slave to the rhythm or love, sex and the dialectic of freedomThesis Eleven 117 (1): 127-134. 2013.Current changes in the intimate sphere are denoted by an expansion of emotional vocabularies, of freedom in sex and sexual preference, and the extension of sexual life with neither inhibition, nor obligation, nor marriage for both women and men. This reading of the works of Jean-Claude Kaufmann and Niklas Luhmann suggests that the result of this current revolution of the intimate sphere is mixed. A new differentiated form of the intimate sphere has developed with an internal distinction between …Read more
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53Imaginary turns in critical theory: Imagining subjects in tensionCritical Horizons 2 (1): 61-92. 2001.The aim of this paper is to examine two turns towards the idea of the creative imagination in contemporary critical theory in the works of Axel Honneth and Cornelius Castoriadis. Honneth's work subsumes the idea of the creative imagination under the paradigm of mutual recognition. Castoriadis constructs the idea of the creative imagination from an ontological perspective. However, Castoriadis' idea of the primary autism of the creative imagination can be thrown into relief by Hegel's Jena Lectur…Read more
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52Modernity, enlightenment, revolution and romanticism: Creating social theoryIn Barry Smart & George Ritzer (eds.), Handbook of Social Theory, Sage Publications. pp. 13--29. 2001.
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47Democratic Revolutions, Power and the City: Weber and Political ModernityThesis Eleven 97 (1): 81-98. 2009.This article develops three interconnected arguments concerning the image of modernity as a revolutionary epoch and the way in which this image has been understood and theorized. These three lines of conceptualization, which can only be sketched in less rather than greater detail here, concern the constellation or figuration of modernity, its democratic dimension, and in reference to each, the work of Max Weber, especially The City. More specifically, the article argues that modern democracy is …Read more
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38Durkheim and the reflexive condition of modernityCritical Horizons 7 (1): 179-206. 2006.In this essay, Durkheim's work is approached from a double vantage point. One vantage point looks at Durkheim's work with a post-classical attitude that intersects the ontological recasting of the social in the work of Castoriadis. It is in the context of social opening that I will concentrate on Durkheim's work as it presents a model of reflexivity that concentrates on the historical development of the modern period. Durkheim's model of reflexivity also opens onto the other vantage point of pol…Read more
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31Citizens and Strangers: Cosmopolitanism as an Empty UniversalCritical Horizons 17 (1): 110-122. 2016.This paper approaches the issue of cosmopolitanism from the vantage point of hospitality. The notion of hospitality throws into relief some issues that are at the heart of political cosmopolitanism, but cannot be addressed by it. This is because these issues do not necessarily revolve around the category of the citizen, but around the categories of stranger and outsider. The paper critiques the tendency to conflate the categories of the stranger and the outsider and goes on to argue that the sta…Read more
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26Issues and debates in contemporary critical and social philosophyCritical Horizons 5 (1): 1-25. 2004.
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25Violence, Cruelty, Power: Reflections on HeteronomyCosmos and History 8 (2): 3-20. 2012.There is an opening in Castoriadis’ work for a notion of cruelty, and it emerges in the way in which he develops his idea of heteronomy, as a human world that is blinded or deflected away from human self-creation. This essay is an attempt to locate cruelty constitutively or ontologically in a post-metaphysical register, as an act of creativity that can be given form as a very particular act of singularity, that is, without regard for the other. Acts of human cruelty are acts of imaginary, creati…Read more
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24Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity: A Thesis Eleven Reader (edited book)MIT Press. 1992.These thirteen articles provide theoretical and historically informed analyses of thepowerful currents that are shaping the late twentieth-century political and culturallandscape.
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24György Markus: On the Path of Culture – Editorial IntroductionCritical Horizons 14 (2): 125-126. 2013.
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23Imagining cities, others: Strangers, contingency and fearThesis Eleven 121 (1): 9-22. 2014.This paper explores the constellation of fear and the social forces, assumptions and images that construct it. The paper’s underlying presupposition is that there are many locations for fear that run parallel to one another in modernity, one of which will be discussed here – the city. It begins by exploring two images and ideas of the city, around which the social theoretical tradition has revolved, both of which are linked in some way to the ideal of the metropolis and the counter-ideal of the …Read more
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22Editorial introductionCritical Horizons 1 (2): 169-173. 2000.There has always been a tension between a critique of ‘real existing conditions’ and meta-theoretical paradigms through which the tasks of critique can both be anchored and images of humankind explored.
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22James Bohman, Democracy Across Borders: From Dêmos to DêmoiCritical Horizons 10 (1): 141-147. 2009.
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