CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS et al
SOCIALISME OU BARBARIE
An Anthology
An Anthology
Paperback
Extent: 488 pages
Trim: 15.5 x. 23.5 cm
ISBN: 9781912475131
Price: $30
The objective of politics is not happiness but freedom; autonomy is freedom understood not in the inherited, metaphysical sense, but as effective, humanly feasible, lucid and reflective positing of the rules of individual and collective activity.
––Cornelius Castoriadis
Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948–67) was a revolutionary group whose journal of the same name helped inspire France’s May ’68 student-worker rebellion and influenced generations of radicals worldwide. Published in English for the first time, this anthology restores the collective nature of the group’s adventure, in which manual and intellectual workers reflected and acted together—creatively, and not without profound disagreements—in anticipation of a non-hierarchical, self-governing society.
