Call for Papers for the Workshop “Democracy and Radical Imagination – Castoriadis Revisited

That democracy is in crisis is a truism today. In recent years, many commentators have identified the disintegration of truth and facts as the core threat to democratic societies, and accordingly call for restoring our political sense of reality. In turn, this workshop proceeds from the conviction that we face at least as severe a crisis of our political sense of possibility: a crisis of political imagination. To explore paths for restoring and enlivening political imagination and our political sense of possibility, it seems apt to (re)turn to the work of Cornelius Castoriadis. The workshop revisits the work of Castoriadis in order to explore how, to what extent, and in which respects it can be utilized or updated for tackling the crisis of imagination.

Call for Papers for the Workshop “Democracy and Radical Imagination – Castoriadis Revisited”

That democracy is in crisis is a truism today. In recent years, many commentators have identified the disintegration of truth and facts as the core threat to democratic societies, and accordingly call for restoring our political sense of reality. In turn, this workshop proceeds from the conviction that we face at least as severe a crisis of our political sense of possibility: a crisis of political imagination. To explore paths for restoring and enlivening political imagination and our political sense of possibility, it seems apt to (re)turn to the work of Cornelius Castoriadis. The workshop revisits the work of Castoriadis in order to explore how, to what extent, and in which respects it can be utilized or updated for tackling the crisis of imagination.

Send your abstracts for working papers until December 31, 2022. The workshop will take place May 25-26, 2023 at the University of Vienna.

The workshop is organized by Sara Gebh & Sergej Seitz from the ERC Research Project Prefiguring Democratic Futures (PREDEF)

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