Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion: On Human Creation, Historical Novelty, and the Social Imaginary

by Suzi Adams (Editor)

Overview

This volume makes available for the first time an encounter between Ricoeur and Castoriadis on questions of human creation, social imaginaries, history, and the imagination to an English speaking audience. As such it represents a highly significant resource for scholars, and a lively introduction to each of their thought for newcomers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786601353
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/15/2017
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Suzi Adams is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Castoriadis’s Ontology: Being and Creation (2011), and editor of Cornelius Castoriadis: Key Concepts (2014) and Cornelius Castoriadis: Critical Encounters (a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory, 2012, co-edited with Ingerid Straume). Contributors: Johann P. Arnason, Jean-Luc Amalric, François Dosse, Johann Michel, George Taylor

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword Suzi Adams / Preface: Situating Castoriadis and Ricoeur Johann P. Arnason / Preface to the French Edition Johann Michel (trans. Scott Davidson) / 1. Dialogue on History and the Social Imaginary Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis (trans. Scott Davidson) / 2. On the Cusp: Ricoeur and Castoriadis at the Boundary George H. Taylor / 3. Castoriadis and Ricoeur on Meaning and History: Contrasts and Convergences Johann P. Arnason / 4. Ricoeur and Castoriadis: The Productive Imagination Between Mediation and Origin Jean-Luc Amalric / 5. Castoriadis and Ricoeur on the Hermeneutic Spiral and the Meaning of History: Creation, Interpretation, Critique Suzi Adams / 6. The Social Imaginary as Engine of History in Ricoeur and Castoriadis by François Dosse (trans. Natalie J. Doyle) / Contributor Bios

Editorial Reviews

This fascinating comparison between two major contemporary thinkers, who had only limited contact with each other, nevertheless takes us to the heart of major issues in social theory: the interworking of institutions and symbols, their significance for relations of power and the scope for radical change in history. The authors, in charting the relations between these two views, end up casting an enormous amount of light on these crucial questions.

Charles Taylor

Suzi Adams has made an important contribution to our understanding of French intellectual life in recent years by assembling a series of thoughtful essays by noted authors around an encounter between two major figures: Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis. In their conversation, translated here in English for the first time, the two philosophers join forces to tackle the question of human creativity in history.

Vincent Descombes

This engaging live dialogue between Ricoeur and Castoriadis offers important insights into inexhaustible hermeneutic interpretation and productive collective imagination, which turn around the question of the possibility of radical novelty in thinking and social being. The publication of the debate is accompanied by a set of perceptive interpretations and commentaries that are philosophically significant in their own right.

Dmitri Nikulin

Suzi Adams has assembled an important collection of essays that offer crucial insights into the significance human production and creativity have for history, politics, and action. Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion represents a major contribution to our understanding of the social imaginary’s critical role in a world beset with social and political challenges.

Roger W. H. Savage