@article{Papadimitropoulos_2015, title={Indeterminacy and Creation in the Work of Cornelius Castoriadis}, volume={11}, url={http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/378}, abstractNote={<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: #000000; widows: 2; orphans: 2 } P.western { so-language: el-GR } A:link { color: #0000ff; so-language: zxx } --> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="el-GR" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This article explores the notions of indeterminacy and creation in Castoriadis’ work. The notions of indeterminacy and creation are initially associated with Castoriadis’ conception of Being as Chaos contradicted with what Castoriadis calls "ensemblistic-identitary logic”. The conception of Being as Chaos is then linked with the notion of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>otherness </em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">analyzed as creation </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>ex nihilo</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">. In particular, creation </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>ex nihilo </em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">is analyzed in the context of Castoriadis division of Being’s multiplicity into difference and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>otherness</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">. I will argue that Being’s multiplicity as difference refers to the "ensemblistic-identitary logic” while </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>otherness </em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">comes up with a novel form of Being identified as </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>ex nihilo</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> creation</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>. </em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Finally, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>otherness</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> is approached through Castoriadis’ conception of time whereby </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>otherness </em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">and, consequently, time is further associated with Castoriadis’ notion of imaginary as the latter deploys in the social-historical field of mankind through the imaginary significations of society.</span></span></span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy}, author={Papadimitropoulos, Vangelis}, year={2015}, month={Aug.}, pages={256–268} }