Abstract
Cornelius Castoriadis described his earliest published works when they were reprinted in Athens, in 1988, by Ypsilon Books. Castoriadis' early texts are written in a rather impetuous and aggressive style; and despite their bad syntax, endless conditionals, incomprehensible hypotactic structure and dense arguments, they present strong and forceful ideas about many important questions of his thinking that would later develop into major thematic axes of his later philosophy. The conflict between structures and the individual, between heteronomy and autonomy, was already mapped out in these badly written philosophical essays by Despotopoulos. If one extend the notion of disemia to include not only rhetorical tropes, and linguistic registers, or indeed cultural mentalities, but also conceptual frameworks, world-views and philosophical enterprises, Castoriadis' early essays take on a new meaning in his attempt to synthesise coexisting and yet contradictory patterns of conceptualisation. Keywords: Cornelius Castoriadis's early essays; Despotopoulos; disemia ; linguistic registers; rhetorical tropes
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