Postscript on Insignificancy

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Today, on the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune, we announce the publication of Postscript on Insignificancy, including More Interviews and Discussions on the Rising Tide of Insignificancy, followed by Five Dialogues, Four Portraits and Two Book Reviews by Cornellius Castoriadis, which has been -- like the other volumes in this series -- translated from the French and edited anonymously as a public service.

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CONTENTS

Notice ii
Books by Cornelius Castoriadis Published in English, with
Standard Abbreviations v
Books by Cornelius Castoriadis Published in French, with
Standard Abbreviations vii
Foreword x
On the Translation xlvi

PART ONE: POSTSCRIPT ON INSIGNIFICANCY
§Corneille, Key Dissident, by Daniel Mermet 5
§Neither God, Nor Caesar, Nor Tribune (1996) 8

PART TWO: MORE INTERVIEWS AND DISCUSSIONS ON THE RISING TIDE OF INSIGNIFICANCY
§Socialism or Barbarism (1961) 27
§A Thoroughgoing Shakeup of All Forms of Social Life:
An Introductory Interview (1973) 53
§Wot? No Contradictions? (1974) 61
§Liberal Oligarchies (1985) 66
§Beating the Retreat Into Private Life (1986) 67
§The Ambiguities of Apoliticism (1986) 75
§This Extraordinary Capacity for Self-Organization (1987) 78
§Perish the Church, the State, the Universities, the Media,
and the Consensus (1988) 88
§The Big Sleep of the Democracies (1989) 93
§Giving a Meaning to Our Lives (1990) 96
§Politics in Crisis (1990) 100
§A Crisis of the Imaginary? (1991) 106
§The Rebirth of a Democratic Movement (1991) 109
§The “End of History”? (1992) 117
§Society Running in Neutral (1992) 130
§The Crisis of Marxism and the Crisis of Politics (1992) 134
§If There Is to Be a Democratic Europe (1993) 144
§I Am a Revolutionary (1997) 153

PART THREE: FIVE DIALOGUES
French Editors’ Foreword to Dialogue 161
§Répliques: “Facing Modernity” with Octavio Paz and
Cornelius Castoriadis (1996) 164
§Interview: Cornelius Castoriadis and
Jean-Luc Donnet (1995) 184
§Interview: Cornelius Castoriadis and
Francisco Varela (1995) 200
§Interview: Cornelius Castoriadis and
Alain Connes (1995) 217
§Interview in Annex: Cornelius Castoriadis and
Robert Legros (1990) 236

PART FOUR: FOUR PORTRAITS
§Benno Sternberg-Sarel (1971) 255
§C.L.R. James and the Fate of Marxism (1992) 258
§Remembering Irving Howe (1993) 288
§Raoul (1995) 290

PART FIVE: TWO BOOK REVIEWS
§Francisco Varela, Principles of Biological Autonomy
(1980) 296
§Philosophy as Antidote: Roger-Pol Droit, Philosophy
and Democracy in the World (1995) 300

Appendix: Potential Future Translation Projects 305