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Cornelius Castoriadis Quotes on Politics

Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and political theorist. This page collects quotes attributed to Cornelius Castoriadis on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Cornelius Castoriadis:

    “Society is self-instituted; it is not given by nature, by God, or by history.”

  • Attributed to Cornelius Castoriadis:

    “Autonomy is the project of consciously giving ourselves our own laws.”

  • Attributed to Cornelius Castoriadis:

    “We are responsible for what we make of the world we share.”

  • Attributed to Cornelius Castoriadis:

    “The crisis of the West is the crisis of imagination as much as of institutions.”