卡斯特瑞阿迪斯社会的想象性建构.doc

The Imaginary Institution of Society CORNELIUS CASTORIADISTranslated by Kathleen Blamey The MIT Press Cambridge, This work originally appeared in French under the title Linstitution imaginaire de la société, ? 1975 by éditions du Seuil, Paris, Contents Preface 1 Part I Marxism and Revolutionary Theory 7 1 Marxism: A Provisional Assessment 9 i The Historical Situation of Marxism and the Notion of Orthodoxy 9 ii Marxist Theory of History 15 Economic determinism and class struggle 29 Subject and object of historical knowledge 32 Additional remarks on the Marxist theory of history 36 iii Marxist Philosophy of History 41 Objectivist rationalism 41 Determinism 42 The concatenation of significations and the cunning of reason 45 Dialectic and materialism 54 iv The Two Elements of Marxism and their Historical Fate 56 The Philosophical Foundation of the Decay 68 2 Theory and Revolutionary Project 71 i Praxis and Project 71 Knowing and doing 71 Praxis and project 75 ii Roots of the Revolutionary Project 79 Social roots of the revolutionary project 79 Revolution and rationalization 84 Revolution and social totality 86 The subjective roots of the revolutionary project 90 The logic of the revolutionary project 95 iii Autonomy and Alienation 101 The sense of autonomy -- the individual 101 The social dimension of autonomy 107 Instituted heteronomy: alienation as a social phenomenon 108 Communism in its mythical sense 110 3 The Institution and the Imaginary: A First Approach 115 i The Institution from the Functional-Economic Point of View 115 ii The Institution and the Symbolic 117 iii The Symbolic and the Imaginary 127 iv Alienation and the Imaginary 132 v Social Imaginary Significations 135 vi The Role of Imaginary Significations 146 vii The Imaginary in the Modern World 156 viii The Imaginary and the Rational 160 Par