Castoriadis faced with the Platonic tradition. Some remarks on an against the grain reading

Keywords: Castoriadis, Plato, Statesman, Political Ontology, Ancient Greece
Agencies: Project I D HAR2017-83613-C2-2-P and it is part of the activities of Grupo de Investigación consolidado de la UAM, “Influencias de las éticas griegas en la filosofía contemporánea” (Ref. F-055).

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In this paper, we explore a selection of Castoriadis’ writings, paying special attention to the seminars devoted to Plato’s Statesman, and discuss his divorce from the Platonic and (Neo)Platonic tradition. Castoriadis places Plato beyond a theoretical and academic interpretation: the Ancient Greece that Castoriadis claims, from his political ontology, is not a paradigm, but a “germ” of autonomy, by which understand the birth of democracy, philosophy and history in order to transform himself and society.

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José María Zamora Calvo, Autonomous University of Madrid

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Deparmento de Filosofía

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Published
2020-01-27
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Zamora Calvo J. M. (2020). Castoriadis faced with the Platonic tradition. Some remarks on an against the grain reading. Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy, 9(16), 45-64. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/LTDL/article/view/75174
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Vol. 9 No. 16 (2020): Cornelius Castoriadis. A philosopher to think about the present
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