Theodore Vassiliades

Thomas Mann is a true master of the classics. Prose is a quality that he possesses through his deep poetic vein. He stands as a thorough connoisseur of life as it is. He uses death as an issue of contemplation in almost all his writings and this is the classic entelechy chosen as a conclusion , since it stands as the great taboo and philosophic scandal. In Tristan the richness and diversity of a great mind is soothing and the image is coming to life with relative ease. The real human and the trend and mores of an era is depicted in only about 75 pages

Articles ,speeches , dialogues of Cornelius Castoriades on several occasions; The ground and historical continuity of the political and its relation to the social. The connection of the social -collective - to the person itself Art, values and their indifference from the post-modern The groundbreaking appearance of democracy Music and its preceding from the world Emancipation and the autonomy of the people (possibilities) The process of thinking and an attempt to decode it Poetry and diverse criticism , Culture and the new paths after modernism I would use another two stars if existing Castoriades was a fearless thinker and this makes him so valuable He is not prototype but is certainly a man of broad spirit that wrote on so many issues with great clarity and authority