Cornelius Castoriadis is presently Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is a philosopher, social critic, professional economist, practicing psychoanalyst and one of Europe's foremost thinkers. The Castoriadis Reader provides for the first time an overview of the author's work and encompasses every aspect of his thought.
About the Author
David Ames Curtis is an independent translator and writer. He is based in Paris.
Features
* 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.
