This book contains the five lectures given by K. Kastoriadis in Thessaloniki and Alexandroupoli in March 1993 on the following topics: The contribution of psychoanalysis to the understanding of the genesis of society, Education in a democratic society, Aeschylean anthropogony and Sophoclean self-creation of man, Ecology and politics, and Pseudochaos, Chaos and Cosmos.

Texts that constantly occupy the great Greek philosopher on issues that touch upon everyday and global problems: ecology, politics, the relationship between individual psyche and social institution, education and the connection with the ancient Greek democratic tradition.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]