![]() ![]() ![]() But this versatility has not encouraged the spread of his thought, on the contrary: in Italy only a few works have been translated and published (often in part), an author that abroad remains far more cited than read and assimilated.ĭemocracy and relativism, the booklet now published by Eleuthera, is a good opportunity (the only in Italian) to meet the thought of Castoriadis in its essential features. His work is absolutely encyclopedic, not only vast but varied enough to tap deep into the most varied fields of knowledge. He was a philosopher, psychologist, economist and, above all, revolutionary activist. Initially Communist (he was close to trozkism up to twenty years), has developed one of the most radical and articulate criticism of Marxism, especially techno-bureaucracy of the Soviet Union, developing the concept of autonomy. ![]() ![]() Founder of the group Socialisme ou Barbarie with Claude Lefort, the eponymous magazine published from 1949 to 1966. Greek by birth, fled to France in the forties. Cornelius Castoriadis (Constantinople, 1922 - Paris, 1997) was one of the most innovative maître à penser of French culture in the late twentieth century. ![]()
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