World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination

by Cornelius Castoriadis

Book Overview

This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought. Starting from an inquiry that grows out of the specific context of a society that is experiencing uncertainty as to its ways of living and being, its goals, its values, and its knowledge, one that has been incapable, so far, of adequately understanding the crisis it is undergoing, Castoriadis sets as his task the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727635
• ISBN13: 9780804727631
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"