Rethinking Castoriadis’s Concept of Self-Limitation: The Case of Swiss Women’s Suffrage
Theory, Culture & Society: Explorations in Critical Social Science
Published online on February 10, 2026
Abstract
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For there to be democracy, there must be self-limitation. This is one of the key ideas in the thought of Cornelius Castoriadis. Yet he says little about what exactly self-limitation means. The examples he gives by way of illustration – Sophocles’Antigone...
For there to be democracy, there must be self-limitation. This is one of the key ideas in the thought of Cornelius Castoriadis. Yet he says little about what exactly self-limitation means. The examples he gives by way of illustration – Sophocles’Antigone...