The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983

by Cornelius Castoriadis

Book Overview

This book collects 12 previously untranslated lectures by Castoriadis from 1982 to 1983. Castoriadis focuses on the interconnection between philosophy and democracy and the way both emerge within a self-critical imaginary already in development in the work of early Greek poets and Presocratic philosophers.
Displaying both mastery of the relevant scholarship and original interpretation, he reveals the birth of a society that would place its highest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474475337
• ISBN13: 9781474475334
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"