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36The mad animal: On Castoriadis’ radical imagination and the social imaginaryThesis Eleven 146 (1): 71-86. 2018.The following article defines Castoriadis’ concepts of the radical imagination and the social imaginary as a platform for a discussion of some motifs important to Castoriadis: the nature of human subjectivity, the nature of ‘reality’, the role and scope of the human imagination, the importance of freedom, the question of whether or not we are free (i.e. how sick/diminished/vulnerable is the second epoch of autonomy that broke open in/as modernity), and the roles of science, politics and philosop…Read more
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |