* This volume provides the first general overview of the Castoriadis's work - ranging across earlier works to conclude with Castoriadis's most recent writings.
* Also presents hard-to-find texts previously only available in small specialist journals.
* Serves to provide an historical overview of the evolution of the author's views -- texts have been organised in chronological order.
* A final chapter features Castoriadis's responses to the critics and contains the author's forceful and thoughtful replies to 30 discussions of his life's work which were written by an international collection of scholars.