Alphabetarion # Authorities | Cornelius Castoriadis, 1975

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“While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute. In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)”

Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society, 1975