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Demokratyczny stan umysłu. Teoria Corneliusa Castoriadisa
A democratic mind. Cornelius Castoriadis’ theory of democracy

Author(s): Jolanta Sawicka
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: democracy; social changes; political consciousness; equality; demokracja; zmiany społeczne; świadomość polityczna; równość

Summary/Abstract: The paper outlines Cornelius Castoriadis’ philosophical view on a theory of democracy. The French thinker offers an original and, well, controversial definition of democracy, obviously divergent from its common understanding. His writings allow for an interpretation of democracy as not just a way of a government or a form of social organization but first of all as a form of consciousness or (generally) a state of mind.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: XXVII
  • Page Range: 199-213
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish