Cornelius Castoriadis

Tags: Philosopher.

Cornelius Castoriadis (French: [kastɔʁjadis]; Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης [kastoriˈaðis]; March 11 1922 – December 26 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher social critic economist psychoanalyst author of The Imaginary Institution of Society and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.His writings on autonomy and social institutions have been influential in both academic and activist circles.

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birth date

1922-03-11

birth place

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire

death date

1997-12-26

death place

Paris, France

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Zygmunt Bauman, Edgar Morin, Hans Joas, Hans G. Furth, Guy Debord, Graham Ward (theologian), Elias Petropoulos, Nikolas Kompridis, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Francisco Varela, Georges Duby, Jean Baudrillard, Claude Lefort, Takis Fotopoulos, Nicole Loraux, René Lourau, Richard Rorty, Anthony Giddens Baron Giddens, Robin Hahnel, Vincent Descombes, Jacques Le Goff, E. P. Thompson, Chris Pallis, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Marcel Gauchet, Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler, John Thompson (sociologist), Sudipta Kaviraj, Andrew Arato, Lorraine Code, Andreas_Kalyvas, Danilo_Martuccelli, Fran%C3%A7ois_Roustang, Frieder_Otto_Wolf, Georges_Lapassade, Jean-Claude_Mich%C3%A9a, Johann_P%C3%A1l_Arnason, Laurent_Van_Eynde, Mathieu_Potte-Bonneville, Myriam_Revault_d'Allonnes, Rapha%C3%ABl_G%C3%A9ly, Sophie_Klimis, Theofanis_Tasis, Vincent_de_Gaulejac, Yorgos_Oikonomou, Harald_Wolf

influenced by

Aristotle, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Marx, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Gaston Bachelard, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Giambattista Vico, Melanie Klein, Rosa Luxemburg, Joan Robinson, Francisco Varela, Hannah Arendt, Jean Laplanche, André Leroi-Gourhan, Piera Aulagnier, Jacques Ellul, C. L. R. James, Susan Sutherland Isaacs, Grace Lee Boggs, Ren%C3%A9_Poirier

main interest

Aesthetics, Developmental psychology, Ecology, Economics, Libertarian socialism, Ontology, Political philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Kremlinology, Philosophy of science, Social criticism

philosophicalSchool

Libertarian socialism, Continental philosophy, Western Marxism