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The Modern Political Imaginary and the Problem of Hierarchy
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The need to elucidate hierarchy's deeper sources and its legitimations were some of the motivations behind Cornelius... as mentioned in this paper, who was a central concern of work on the modern political imaginary.Abstract:
Hierarchy has been a central concern of work on the modern political imaginary. The need to elucidate hierarchy’s deeper sources and its legitimations were some of the motivations behind Cornelius ...read more
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“The Local Consultant Will Not Be Credible”: How Epistemic Injustice Is Experienced and Practised in Development Aid
TL;DR: The authors used the concept of epistemic injustice to shed light on the discriminatory treatment of experts in and by development aid, while the literature on epistemic justice is largely based on the notion of fairness.
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The antinomies of the modern imaginary and the double dialectic of control
TL;DR: Castoriadis made a significant and distinctive contribution to the development of the notion of the dialectic of control and formulated an important reconc... as mentioned in this paper, which is the basis for the Dialectic of Control.
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The New Spirit of Capitalism
Luc Boltanski,Eve Chiapello +1 more
TL;DR: A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
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Science as a Vocation
TL;DR: It is not true that the work of art of a period that has worked out new technical means, or, for instance, the laws of perspective, stands therefore artistically higher than a piece of art devoid of all knowledge of those means and laws as mentioned in this paper.
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The Imaginary Institution of Society
TL;DR: Castoriadis's "The Imaginary Institution of Society" as discussed by the authors is one of the most important works of contemporary European thought, and it is the most original, ambitious, and reflective attempt to think through the liberating mediation of history, society, external and internal nature once again as praxis.
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The old régime and the French Revolution
TL;DR: De Tocqueville as mentioned in this paper was the first to write a book on the French Revolution, only the first part of which came to fruition, as de Tocqueteville's life was cut short by cholera in his fifties.