Figures of the Thinkable

Preface to the French Edition ix Notice xi Poiesis 1 Aeschylean Anthropogony and Sophoclean Self-Creation of Anthropos 1 2 Notes on Some Poetic Resources 21 Koinonia 3 The "Rationality" of Capitalism 47 4 Imaginary and Imagination at the Crossroads 71 5 Primal Institution of Society and Second-Order Institutions 91 Polis 6 Heritage and Revolution 105 7 What Democracy? 118 Psyche 8 The Psychical and Social Roots of Hate 153 9 Psyche and Education 165 10 Psychoanalysis: Its Situation and Limits 188 11 The Psyche and Society Anew 203 Logos 12 The Social-Historical: Mode of Being, Problems of Knowledge 223 13 False and True Chaos 236 14 Remarks on Space and Number 244 Appendix 261 Notes 265