Suggested reading:
Alford, C. F. (1991): The Self in Social Theory. A psychoanalytic account of its construction
in Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls and Rousseau. New Haven; Yale University Press
Arnason, Johann P. (1989): The Imaginary Constitution of Modernity. In: Autonomie et
autotransformation de la société. La philosophie militante de Cornelius Castoriadis.
Ed.: Giovanni Busino, Genève Libraire Droz
Arnason, J.P.: Roads Beyond Marx. In press
Arnason, J.P.: Imaginary Significations and Historical Civilizations. In press
Bouchet, D. (2007): The Ambiguity of the Modern Conception of Autonomy and the Paradox
of Culture. In: Thesis Eleven no. 88/2007. London, Sage
Bourdieu, P. (1997): Méditations Pascaliennes, Paris, Seuil
Cassirer, E., 1957, The Philosophy of Symbolic forms, vol. 3, The Phenomenology
of Knowledge, New Haven and London, Yale University Press
Castoriadis, C. (1987): The Imaginary Institution of Society. Cambridge, MIT Press
Castoriadis, C. (1999): On Plato's Statesman. Stanford, Stanford University Press
Castoriadis, C. (2007): Fenêtre sur le Chaos, Paris, Seuil
Castoriadis, C. (2004): Ce qui fait la Grèce. La création humaine II. Paris, Seuil
Caumières, Klimis and Van Eynde (eds.) 2006: Imagination et création historique.
Cahiers Castoriadis no 2, Bruxelles, Publications des Facultés universitaires
Saint-Louis
Gauchet, Marcel: … Thesis Eleven no. 70/2002
Gauchet, Marcel (2002): Redefining the Unconscious. In: Thesis Eleven no. 71/2002,
pp. 4-23, London, Sage
Klimis, Sophie (2006): Explorer le labyrinthe imaginaire de la création grecque: un projet en
travail. In: L’imagination selon Castoriadis. Thémes et enjeux. Cahiers Castoriadis
no. 1. Bruxelles, Publications des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis
Patočka, Jan (1996 b) Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, Translated by Erazim Kohák, Edited by James Dodd, with Paul Ricoeur’s Preface to the French Edition, Chicago: Open Court Press.
Res Publica no. 58, 2003: Castoriadis. Eds. Ingemar Karlsson and Mats Rosengren.
Stockholm, Brutus Östling.
Rorty, R. (1999): Philosophy and Social Hope, London, Penguin
Taylor, Charles (1985) Human Agency and Language. Philosophical papers 1. Cambridge
University Press
Taylor, C. (1985): Philosophy and the human sciences. Philosophical papers 2. Cambridge
University Press
On Castoriadis’s conception of the human psyche/subject
Castoriadis, C. (1987), The Imaginary Institution of Society, (chapter 6, ”The Social-Historical Institution: Individuals and Things").
Castoriadis, C. (1984), "Epilegomena to a Theory of the Soul which has been presented as a Science", in Crossroads in the Labyrinth.
Castoriadis, C. (1984), "Psychoanalysis: Project and Elucidation", in: Crossroads in the Labyrinth.
Castoriadis, C. (1997), "From the Monad to Autonomy", in World in Fragments (Stanford University Press, 1997).
Castoriadis, C. (1997), "Psychoanalysis and Politics", in World in Fragments (Stanford University Press, 1997).
Castoriadis, C. (1997), ”The State of the Subject Today", in World in Fragments (Stanford University Press, 1997).
Castoriadis, C. (1997), "Psychoanalysis and Philosophy", in The Castoriadis Reader (Blackwell).
On Castoriadis’s conception of the social-historical
Castoriadis, C. (1987), The Imaginary Institution of Society, (chapters 3, 4, 5 & 7).
Castoriadis, C. (1988) “The First Institution of Society and Second-order Institutions”, Free Associations, 12: 39-51.
Castoriadis, C. (1997) “Radical Imagination and the Social Instituting Imaginary (1994)” in The Castoriadis Reader (Blackwell, pp 319-337).
Castoriadis, C. (1984) “The Imaginary: Creation in the Social-Historical Domain”, in World in Fragments (Stanford University Press, 1997).
Castoriadis, C. (1984), “Value, Equality, Justice, Politics: From Marx to Aristotle and from Aristotle to Ourselves”, in Crossroads in the Labyrinth.