Dimitris Vardoulakis

Dimitris Vardoulakis
Born1975
EducationMonash University (PhD)
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental
InstitutionsWestern Sydney University
ThesisThe Doppelgänger: literary, critical and philosophical reflections (2006)
Main interests
Philosophy and literature
Power
Sovereignty

Dimitris Vardoulakis (born 1975) is a Greek philosopher and Associate Professor of philosophy in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He works in the tradition of Continental philosophy, and has published on a variety of topics, including the relation between literature and philosophy, power and sovereignty.

Career

He received his PhD in philosophy from Monash University and is a winner of Excellence in Leadership Award.[1]

Vardoulakis is the author of The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy (2011, Fordham University Press)[2][3] and Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013, Fordham University Press).[4][5] He co-edited After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy (2005, Delaware Press) with Leslie Hill and Brian Nelson[6][7][8] and was the sole editor of Spinoza Now (2011, University of Minnesota Press).[9][10][11] He co-edited a special issue of SubStance entitled "The Political Animal" with Chris Danta,[12] and a special issue of Angelaki entitled "The Politics of Place" with Andrew Benjamin.[13]

Vardoulakis is the chair of the lecture series Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society and editor of the linked book series published by Fordham University Press. He is the co-editor of the book series Incitements, published with Edinburgh University Press.[14][15]

Bibliography

  • Vardoulakis, D. (2013), Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy, New York: Fordham University Press ISBN 9780823277407
  • Vardoulakis, D. (2016), Freedom From the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter, State University of New York Press ISBN 9781438462394
  • Vardoulakis, D. (2013), Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence, New York: Fordham University Press ISBN 9780823251353
  • Vardoulakis, D., ed. (2011), Spinoza Now, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
  • Vardoulakis, D. (2010), The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy, New York: Fordham University Press ISBN 9780823232987
  • Hill, L., Nelso, B. and Vardoulakis, D., eds. (2005), After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy, : Delaware Press ISBN 0874139465

See also

References

  1. ^ "CV" (PDF).
  2. ^ Salzani, Carlo (2015). "Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy". Critical Horizons 12 (3): 418-22. doi:10.1558/crit.v12i3.418.
  3. ^ Biti, Vladimir (2012). "The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy". Orbis Litterarum 67 (1): 82. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.2011.01047.x.
  4. ^ Mansfield, Nick (2014). "Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 3 (6). Open access icon.
  5. ^ Barder, Alexander D. (2015). "Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence". Perspectives on Politics 13 (1): 170-1. doi:10.1017/S1537592714003387.
  6. ^ Bruns, Gerald L. (2006). "After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 8 (5). Open access icon.
  7. ^ Rapaport, Herman (2009). "After Blanchot?" Paragraph 32 (2): 255-64. doi:10.3366/E0264833409000583.
  8. ^ Holland, Michael (2002). "Blanchot". Modern Language Review 97 (1): 199.
  9. ^ Grattan, Sean (2011). "Spinoza as Imperative". Meditations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group 25 (2). Open access icon
  10. ^ Winkler, Sean (2013). "Spinoza Now". Bibliographia 1: 42-7.
  11. ^ Lord, Beth (2012). "What can we do with Spinoza?" Parallax 18 (4): 125-7. doi:10.1080/13534645.2012.715464.
  12. ^ Danta, Chris, and Dimitris Vardoulakis (2008). "Foreword: The Political Animal". SubStance 37 (3): 3-7. doi:10.1353/sub.0.0025.
  13. ^ Benjamin, Andrew, and Dimitris Vardoulakis (2004). "Editorial Introduction: The Politics of Place". Angelaki 9 (2): 1-3. doi:10.1080/0969725042000272708.
  14. ^ "Stasis and Agonistic Democracy" - Dimitris Vardoulakis lecture
  15. ^ "Profiles".