ABSTRACT
John Akritas looked to Cornelius Castoriadis’ legacy to help him make sense of the Greek riots in two pieces originally posted online last year (at “Helenic Antidote”) and reprinted here. His use of the philosophy of autonomy was challenged by David Ames Curtis—the scholar most responsible for bringing Castoriadis’ ideas to the attention of the Anglo-sphere. Akritas answers Curtis’s criticism in the third and final section below.
