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Castoriadis and the Permanent Riddle of the World: Changing Configurations of Worldliness and World Alienation

Monash University, Suzi.Adams{at}arts.monash.edu.au

The problematic of world articulation is central to post-phenomenological approaches. With Castoriadis, it emerges as a significant if shadowy thematic. Its shifting contours in his thought are redolent of the ongoing dialogue between romantic and enlightenment currents. They are also indicative of the ambiguity inherent to cultural articulations of the world in modernity. Here, two world perspectives open up various — and conflicting — interpretative challenges to which a response is necessitated. In Castoriadis's case, these take on particular forms of more general trends of `alienation' and `worldliness'. In particular, the isolation of the social-historical as the sole bearer of creativity tends to result in world alienation, whilst his later shift towards radical physis indicates a trend towards vertical worldliness. Arnason's theorization of world articulation in its twofold sense re-imagines the worldliness of the social-historical both in terms of the world tout court and our concrete stance towards it (or the world towards us). As such, it offers a corrective to the `worldless freedom' of the social-historical in Castoriadis's thought.

Key Words: Johann P. Arnason • Cornelius Castoriadis • creative imagination • hermeneutics • interculturality • post-phenomenology • world horizon

Thesis Eleven, Vol. 90, No. 1, 44-60 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0725513607079254


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