By Jeff Klooger
This booklet is a serious exploration of the philosophical underpinnings and implications of Cornelius Castoriadis’ reflections on Being, society and the self. The booklet introduces the reader to the most thoughts of Castoriadis’ paintings, yet is going additional to discover the elemental philosophical matters addressed through Castoriadis, and to seriously learn the problems his paintings opens up, assessing and, the place priceless, supplying urged amendments to the solutions Castoriadis himself places ahead. Key conceptual difficulties addressed comprise the excellence among autonomy and heteronomy, the character of the self and self-creation, and the character of selection in a essentially indeterminate universe.
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143-146. ”12 Taken together, these two points—individuals are made by society and society only exists in and through individuals—preclude any simple juxtaposition of individual and society. Castoriadis himself has gone so far as to argue that “[t]he individual is not, to begin with and in the main, anything other than society. ”13 If the ‘self-other’ opposition fundamental to both the idea and the experience of heteronomy cannot be equated with any simple opposition between the individual and society, where might we locate it?
Individuals are made by society. The characteristics and abilities which we recognise as those of the human individual arise only in and through society, the result of processes of socialisation through which each society produces not merely individuals of a specific type or types but individuals as such. Socialisation does not merely affect the direction of a development which would occur spontaneously in the absence of society, it effects a transformation of the human animal which, while drawing on inherent capacities and tendencies, is not determined by these.
13 C. Castoriadis, “Individual, Society, Rationality, History,” trans. David Ames Curtis, in Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy, ed. David Ames Curtis, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 61. 14 Ibid. 15 This proposition is explained and critically examined in later chapters. 22 • Chapter One a co-product of society and psyche, that socialisation is only possible because the psyche is not a passive material upon which this process is worked, but an active participant in the process.