Abstract
One of the most significant dimensions of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis is its attempt to interlink the notions of democracy and social creativity. It is in terms of the nexus of the social and the political that the author suggests that the possibility for radical democratisation in the contemporary historical conjuncture is between pragmatism's normative ideal of creative democracy and that of democratic creativity. Creative democracy is the incipient normative ideal of pragmatism. It concerns the creative process of extending and deepening democracy through democratic practices. The aspects of the perspectives of the theories of creative democracy and democratic creativity that have been highlighted, such as Mead's idea of the generalised other, Dewey's notion of organised intelligence, Lefort's conception of the political, and Castoriadis's explication of the instituted imaginary, seek to develop a new appreciation of collective reflexivity and political agency. Keywords: Cornelius Castoriadis; creative democracy; democratic creativity; political agency; radical democratisation; social creativity
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