ARTHUR HUSSNE BERNARDO

In his political experience in the group Socialisme ou Barbarie, Cornelius Castoriadis lived and theorized about the antinomies of the revolutionary attitude. Trying to escape these antinomies, he weaves a conception that balances between the role of the vanguard and that of the base, in dialogue with Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg. However, in the 1950s, the author began a turning point in which he criticized the remnants of Bolshevism in his thinking, but insisted on trying to resolve, within the marxist theoretical framework, the antinomies diagnosed in the revolutionary attitude. At the turn of the 1950s to 1960s, he develops an argument that shows how Marxism itself makes these antinomies even greater, showing itself incapable of resolving them. This path leads Castoriadis to review the relationship between theory and practice, elaborating a critique of philosophy as theoría and political philosophy as an attempt to tame praxis. Our objective is to investigate this new interaction between theory and practice and the way in which this understanding operates to reorganize the relationship between these central matrices of his thought, which are philosophy and politics.