(Re-)immaginare il diritto. Riflessi giuridici nella visione filosofico-politica di Cornelius Castoriadis

The essay examines the dimension of law within Cornelius Castoriadis’s political‑philosophical framework, showing how juridical normativity emerges from the interplay between radical imagination, the socialization of the psyche, and the self‑institution of society. Positioned among the “second‑order institutions,” law possesses an autonomous conceptual density: it delimits action, stabilizes social significations, and opens the constitutive gap between norm and justice – a gap essential to any society oriented toward autonomy. Castoriadis’s perspective thus outlines an immanentist anti‑positivism that rejects extra‑social foundations without resorting to natural‑law doctrines, but conceiving law as a collective creation continually exposed to the tension between the instituting and the instituted.