Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion by Suzi Adams

Author:Suzi Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: National Book Network International

NOTES

1.Hereafter the references to the radio dialogue proper appear as single page numbers.

2.This is the most detailed and insightful analysis of Mauss’s views on the symbolic, but see also Karsenti (2011).

3.For an attempt to draw on Castoriadis to revise Elias’s theory of state formation, see Smith (2006).

4.The German word erfanden is in my opinion unequivocal: It means invented, and this is also in line with Blumenberg’s whole argument. The translator first uses ‘discovered’, and then adds ‘invented’ in brackets.

5.In his discussion of ancient Greek culture, Castoriadis refers to a distinctive and starkly disillusioned view on this issue: ‘But to the third question, “What am I allowed to hope?” there is a definite and clear Greek answer, and this is a massive and resounding nothing’ (Castoriadis 1997, 273; emphasis in original). But despite his unmistakable admiration for this Greek stance, it cannot be said that he identified with it. If he persisted in defining himself as a revolutionary (which, needless to say, no ancient Greek ever did), that implies a certain degree of hope for a better future. And although he and Ricoeur did not converge on a revolutionary position, they seem to share – in very general terms – a vision of more autonomous humanity.

6.Geniusas also argues that Ricoeur’s attempt to elucidate this paradox leads to a fragmenting of the imagination into productive and reproductive capacities, and that a phenomenological correction to Ricoeur’s hermeneutical and overly language-centred approach is needed to solve this problem.

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