By Cornelius Castoriadis
Those impressive essays comprise Cornelius Castoriadis's newest contributions to philosophy, political and social concept, classical stories, improvement idea, cultural feedback, technology, and ecology. studying the "co-birth" in old Greece of philosophy and politics, Castoriadis exhibits how the Greeks' radical wondering of validated principles and associations gave upward push to the "project of autonomy". The "end of philosophy" proclaimed by way of Postmodernism may suggest the top of this venture. That finish is now hastened via the deadly enlargement of technoscience, the waning of political and social clash, and the resignation of intellectuals who blindly protect Western tradition because it is or who in simple terms denounce or "deconstruct" it because it has been. Discussing and criticizing Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Weber, Heidegger, and Habermas, the writer of The Imaginary establishment of Society and Crossroads within the Labyrinth poses an intensive problem to our inherited philosophy.
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Here the " intentions " are so i ntimately entangled with " meanings " (in the narrow sense) or " representations, " on the one hand, with "affects, " on the other (d. what has been said earlier about faith ) that, very often, one's understanding risks remaining external o r simply verbal. S o m e aspects o f M a x Weber' s considerations about "World-religions" seem to me to exemplify this risk. To use an im age: in music we always have rhythm, melody, and harmony. Of course there are monophonic melodies, but even in this case h armony is embedded in the melody since melody cannot exist if it does not belong to a mode, which con fers upon each note its potential har6 .
Anything goes and nothing goes really, but some things work p rovisionally; the ques tion of truth is a " metaphysica l " question, etc. ) , while, in other build ings of Academia, h istorians of philosophy go on chewing the dried fruits of their specialty, and, in the glorious free market of ideas, " ph ilosophical " punk sects supply ideoclips for the consumption of the various media. I must leave aside h ere the question whether, in the present social historical situation, a single person recognizing what I take to be the genuine tasks o f p hilosophy and working on them can do more than bring forward a personal oeuvre.
Mathematics appears more and more as a free creation of h uman i magination working under certain constraints (con sistency, economy) . , q ua ntum theory, and purely mathemati cal considerations play a tremendous heuristic role in today's physics), and ( 2) b umping against no man-made constraints, necessities, and intrinsic kinships. We seem to be creating a m ultilayered " ideal " world which, in the most s trange and uninspectable way, encounters -both -a multilayered physical world and an " ideal " world in itself Everybody knows, or ought to know, the chaotic theoretical situation in fundamental p h ysics-a situation that is all the more puzzling as it does not i n the least i nterfere with the experimental, observational, and practical accu racy and efficiency of physics, nor with its predictive capacity.