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It examines Marxism and revolutionary theory as a framework for understanding historical knowledge, determinism, dialectic, autonomy, and alienation. It then develops a social-historical analysis of time, language, and institution, linking identity and historical schemata with the formation of reality, representation, and the psyche’s socialization.","The Imaginary Institution of Society  \nCORNELIUS CASTORIADIS  \nTranslated by Kathleen Blamey  \nThe MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts  \nThis work originally appeared in French under the title L'institution imaginaire de la société, © 1975 by Éditions du Seuil, Paris, France .  \nContents  \nPreface  1  \nPart I Marxism and Revolutionary Theory  7  \n1 Marxism: A Provisional Assessment  9  \ni The Historical Situation of Marxism and the Notion of  \nOrthodoxy  9  \nii Marxist Theory of History  15  \nEconomic determinism and class struggle  29  \nSubject and object of historical knowledge  32  \nAdditional remarks on the Marxist theory of history  36  \niii Marxist Philosophy of History  41  \nObjectivist rationalism  41  \nDeterminism  42  \nThe concatenation of significations and the 'cunning of  \nreason'  45  \nDialectic and 'materialism'  54  \niv The Two Elements of Marxism and their Historical  \nFate  56  \nThe Philosophical Foundation of the Decay  68  \n2 Theory and Revolutionary Project  71  \ni Praxis and Project  71  \nKnowing and doing  71  \nPraxis and project  75  \nii Roots of the Revolutionary Project  79  \nSocial roots of the revolutionary project  79  \nRevolution and rationalization  84  \nRevolution and social totality  86  \nThe subjective roots of the revolutionary project  90  \nThe logic of the revolutionary project  95  \niii Autonomy and Alienation  101  \nThe sense of autonomy--the individual  101  \nThe social dimension of autonomy  107  \nInstituted heteronomy: alienation as a social  \nphenomenon  108  \n'Communism' in its mythical sense  110  \n3 The Institution and the Imaginary: A First Approach  115  \ni The Institution from the Functional-Economic Point  \nof View  115  \nii The Institution and the Symbolic  117  \niii The Symbolic and the Imaginary  127  \niv Alienation and the Imaginary  132  \nv Social Imaginary Significations  135  \nvi The Role of Imaginary Significations  146  \nvii The Imaginary in the Modern World  156  \nviii The Imaginary and the Rational  160  \nPart II The Social Imaginary and the Institution  165  \n4 The Social-Historical  167  \ni Possible Types of Traditional Responses  170  \nii Society and the Schemata of Coexistence  176  \niii History and the Schemata of Succession  183  \niv The Philosophical Institution of Time  186  \nv Time and Creation  195  \nvi The Social Institution of Time  202  \nvii Identitary Time and Imaginary Time  209  \nviii Lack of Distinction betweeen the Social and the  \nHistorical  215  \n5 The Social-Historical Institution: Legein and Teukhein  221  \ni Identitary Logic and Sets  221  \nii The Social Institution of Ensembles  227  \niii The Leaning of Society on Nature  229  \niv 'Legein' and Language as Code  237  \nv Aspects of 'Legein'  244  \nvi 'Legein', Determinacy, Understanding  257  \nvii Aspects of 'Teukhein'  260  \nviii Historicity of Legein and Teukhein  268  \n6 The Social-Historical Institution: Individuals and Things  273  \ni The Mode of Being of the Unconscious  274  \nii The Question of the Origin of Representation  281  \niii Psychical Reality  291  \niv The Monadic Core of the Primal Subject  294  \nv The Break-Up of the Monad and the Triadic Phase  300  \nvi The Constitution of Reality  308  \nvii Sublimation and the Socialization of the Psyche  311  \nviii The Social-Historical Content of Sublimation  316  \nix The Individual and Representation in General  320  \nx The Prejudice of Perception and the Privilege of  \n'Things'  329  \nxi Representation and Thought  336  \n7 Social Imaginary Significations  340  \ni The Magmas  340  \nii Significations in language  345  \niii Social Imaginary Significations and 'Reality'  353  \niv Social Imaginary Significations and the Institution of  \nthe World  359  \nv The Mode of Being of Social Imaginary Significations  364  \nvi Radical Imaginary, Instituting Society, Instituted  \nSociety  369  \nNotes  374  \nIndex  406  \nPreface  \nThis book may appear heterogeneous. 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