Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion by Adams, Suzi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Editor’s Foreword Note to the French Edition Preface Preface to the French Edition Part I Ricoeur and Castoriadis Radio Dialogue

Chapter One Dialogue on History and the Social Imaginary

Notes References

Part II Essays

Chapter Two On the Cusp: Ricoeur and Castoriadis at the Boundary

The Primordiality of the Social Imaginary The Differentiation Between Productive and Creative Imagination

Castoriadis Ricoeur

The Creative Imagination and the Imaginary Ex Nihilo

Ricoeur Castoriadis

Notes References

Chapter Three Castoriadis and Ricoeur on Meaning and History: Contrasts and Convergences

Setting the Scene From Production to Institution Confronting Structuralism Creativity in Context Continuity and Discontinuity Imaginary Significations and Historical Processes Notes References

much ado about ‘Nothing’: Creation or Production? History, Tradition, and the Hermeneutic Spiral Castoriadis Ricoeur Conclusions and Beginnings: Traversing the Hermeneutic Spiral Anew Acknowledgement Notes References

Chapter Six The Social Imaginary as Engine of History in Ricoeur and Castoriadis

Dual Discontent Regarding Inherited Thought about the Imaginary The Living Imagination in Paul Ricoeur The Imaginary Between Chaos and Institution in Castoriadis’s Works A Real Proximity Between Ricoeur and Castoriadis Notes References

Biographical Notes on Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis

Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) Reference Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997) Reference

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