Castoriadis faced with the Platonic tradition. Some remarks on an against the grain reading
<p class="FormatolibreA">In this paper, we explore a selection of Castoriadis’ writings, paying special attention to the seminars devoted to Plato’s <em>Statesman</em>, and discuss his divorce from the Platonic and (Neo)Platonic tradition. Castoriadis places Plato beyond...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Las Torres de Lucca |
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| Online Access: | http://lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/article/view/353 |
| Summary: | <p class="FormatolibreA">In this paper, we explore a selection of Castoriadis’ writings, paying special attention to the seminars devoted to Plato’s <em>Statesman</em>, and discuss his divorce from the Platonic and (Neo)Platonic tradition. Castoriadis places Plato beyond a theoretical and academic interpretation: the Ancient Greece that Castoriadis claims, from his political ontology, is not a paradigm, but a “germ” of autonomy, by which understand the birth of democracy, philosophy and history in order to transform himself and society.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 2255-3827 |