Greek Political Writers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Adamantios Korais, Cornelius Castoriadis, Evangelos Averoff, Ion Dragoumis, Konstantinos Tsatsos, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Rigas Feraios, Savitri Devi, Sophia N. Antonopoulou, Takis Fotopoulos. Excerpt: Cornelius Castoriadis (Greek: March 11, 1922 - December 26, 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group. Castoriadis was born in Constantinople and his family moved in 1922 to Athens. He developed an interest in politics after he came into contact with Marxist thought and philosophy at the age of 13. His first active involvement in politics occurred during the Metaxas Regime (1937), when he joined the Athenian Communist Youth (, Kommounistiki Neolaia Athinas). In 1941 he joined the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), only to leave one year later in order to become an active Trotskyist. The latter action resulted in his persecution by both the Germans and the Communist Party. In 1944 he wrote his first essays on social science and Max Weber, which he published in a magazine named "Archive of Sociology and Ethics" (, Archeion Koinoniologias kai Ithikis). During the December 1944 violent clashes between the communist-led ELAS and the Papandreou government, aided by British troops, Castoriadis heavily criticized the actions of the KKE. After earning degrees in political science, economics and law from the University of Athens, he sailed to Paris, where he remained permanently, to continue his studies under a scholarship offered by the French Institute. The journal Socialisme ou Barbarie.Once in Paris, Castoriadis joined the Trotskyist Parti Communiste Internationaliste, ...