Alessandro Laganà
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Department Member
- Université Paris 8, Laboratoire d'études romanes, Department Memberadd
- Cornelius Castoriadis, History of Political Thought, Claude Lefort, Miguel Abensour, Pierre Rosanvallon, Begriffsgeschichte, and 16 moreConceptual History, Marxism, Post-Marxism, Critical Theory, François Furet, Pierre Manent, Marcel Gauchet, Socialisme Ou Barbarie, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Cambridge School of Political Thought, Revolutions, Sheldon Wolin, Pierre Clastres, Social and Political Philosophy, and Contemporary Political Theoryedit
- PhD student in "Legality, Political cultures and Democracy" at the University of Perugia and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (en cotutelle de thèse). BA & MA Political Science, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" My main research interests lie in the fields of political theory and the history of political thought. I am currently working on a dissertation project on the concept of democracy in post-war French political thought and finishing a book ... morePhD student in "Legality, Political cultures and Democracy" at the University of Perugia and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (en cotutelle de thèse).
BA & MA Political Science, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
My main research interests lie in the fields of political theory and the history of political thought. I am currently working on a dissertation project on the concept of democracy in post-war French political thought and finishing a book manuscript entitled "Le caractère cyclothymique. Cornelius Castoriadis and the antinomies of the modern political imaginary".edit
Although rarely considered as a relevant chapter in the history of political ecology, Cornelius Castoriadis's contribution to an ecological political thought of democracy stands out as a rather meaningful one. Starting from his... more
Although rarely considered as a relevant chapter in the history of political ecology, Cornelius Castoriadis's contribution to an ecological political thought of democracy stands out as a rather meaningful one. Starting from his social-historical research in the imaginary magma of Western modernity and his analysis of the political failures of radical social movements in the aftermath of May 1968, this paper seeks to explore Castoriadis's political ecology as a manifold and multilayered contribution that is integral to his later political intervention on autonomy and the future of the democratic project. Facing the transformations of the social imaginary of late capitalism, the insertion of an ecological component is of paramount importance to a radical democratic political project as it contests the capitalist scheme of needs and core imaginary significations, pointing to an exigency of self-limitation and a new cultural creation of unprecedented magnitude.
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Paper presented at the International PREDEF Workshop "Democracy and Radical Imagination: Castoriadis Revisited" (University of Wien, 24-26 May 2023).
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https://predef.univie.ac.at/castoriadis/