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Freedom, struggle, and creative action according to Cornelius Castoriadis
Authors: Kioupkiolis, Alexandros
Reviewer: Sevastakis, Nikolaos
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Chapter Five deals with the agonistic interpretation of freedom in the work of Castoriadis, both at the level of the individual and of an autonomous society. According to the proposed reinterpretation of freedom, free individuals and free collectives shape their life paths through reflective decision-making and by choosing among genuinely available alternatives — which may include new possibilities brought to light by the agents themselves. In this way, they aspire to the freedom to question, transform, and reinvent the frameworks of their existence beyond predetermined limits. For open self-determination and the real scope of choice and creative freedom to expand, specific dispositions, practices, and institutional arrangements are required. Freedom thus presupposes a continuous process of critical resistance against both social and psychic barriers and constraints. Castoriadis’s agonistic reinterpretation of freedom revises traditional conceptions in ways that critically address the shortcomings of both essentialist and negative conceptions of freedom. This reconstruction of the idea brings to the fore the dimensions of autonomy, open choice, and self-creation — values embraced by thinkers like Marx, Kant, and Berlin — but which were also undermined in their work due to their attachment to a fixed, stable conception of the individual and its "essence," or their disregard for the formation and limitations of the self.
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4815
Bibliographic Reference: Kioupkiolis, A. (2015). Freedom, struggle, and creative action according to Cornelius Castoriadis [Chapter]. In Kioupkiolis, A. 2015. Philosophies of freedom [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4815
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Philosophies of freedom
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions