Castoriadis's work: Horizontal or lateral?
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 126, Heft 1, S. 135-146
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
The article reviews Suzi Adams's book on Cornelius Castoriadis, Castoriadis's Ontology: Being and Creation, by debating the options and possible deficits in Castoriadis's notion of creativity. While Adams criticizes Castoriadis for neglecting the overarching – and horizontal – worldliness that must ultimately condition creativity in various instances of interpretation, in the most expanded sense as a cosmology, the review ponders an alternative approach which focus on Castoriadis's creativity seen as a notion of a lateral and emergent positing of the novel, 'creations ex nihilo – but not in nihilo or cum nihilo', with the statement in one of the last exposures of his thought (Castoriadis, 1997a: 333).