CASTORIADIS, Cornelius, (1922-), Social critic and editor of the Journal Socialism or Barbarism (1949-1967). Castoriadis was an activist in the Trotskyist movement before moving to France, where he formed the Socialism or Barbarism group in 1948. Employed as an economist at the OECD until 1970, Castoriadis became a practising psychoanalyst in 1974 and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sociales Sciences (1979). Wrote Crossroads in the Labyrinth (1978), The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975), Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy (1991). His articles from Socialism or Barbarism are collected in three volumes of Political and Social Writings
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