Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Awards and Recognition
• Publications
• Contact Details

Biography

Dimitris Vardoulakis has worked on the relation between literature and philosophy and on the relation between culture and the political. The two research areas intersect in that they are both concerned with modernity. He is currently writing a book on sovereignty and another book on prison writings. He is a member of Philosophy@UWS.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Modern Literature, Critical Theory, Deconstruction, Biopolitics, Political Theology, Carl Schmitt, Spinoza, Walter Benjamin, Greek literature.

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Awards and Recognition

In 2007, Dimitris Vardoulakis was an Alexander von Humboldt scholar at the Peter Szondi-Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin.

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Publications

BOOKS

  

Vardoulakis, D., (2010) The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy. Fordham University Press. New York: Fordham UP.

  
Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson and Dimtris Vardoulakis (eds.), After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005).

  
Andrew Benjamin and Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), The Politics of Place, special issue of the journal Angelaki 9.2 (2004).

EDITED BOOKS/ JOURNALS

Vardoulakis, D. (Ed.) (2011)
Spinoza Now. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Kordela, K. & Vardoulakis, D. (Eds.) (2011)
Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages. New York: Palgrave

With Andrew Benjamin, “Sparks will Fly”: Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin. New York: SUNY, forthcoming in 2011.

Spinoza Now. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P. Forthcoming in 2010.

With Leslie Hill and Brian Nelson, After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy. Newark: U. of Delaware P. (2005).

With Danta, Christopher, “The Political Animal”, special issue of Substance. Issue 116 (2008).
Sophocles’ Antigone, special issue of Colloquy. Number 11 (2006).

With Andrew Benjamin, “The Politics of Place”, Angelaki. 9.2 (2004).

BOOK CHAPTERS / REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

With Mieke Bal, “An Inter-Action: Rembrandt and Spinoza”, in ed. D. Vardoulakis, Spinoza Now. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P. Forthcoming in 2009.

“Stasis: Beyond Political Theology?”, Cultural Critique. Forthcoming in 2009.

“Spectres of Duty: The Politics of Silence in Ibsen’s Ghosts”, Orbis Litterarum. Forthcoming in 2009.

“The ‘poor thing’”, Substance. Issue 116 (2008), pp. 137-51.

“The Subject of History: The Temporality of Parataxis in Benjamin’s Historiography”, in ed. Andrew Benjamin, Walter Benjamin and History. London: Continuum (2005), pp. 118-36.

“The Return of Negation: The Doppelgänger in Freud’s The ‘Uncanny’”, Substance. Number 110 (2006), pp. 100-16.

“Total Imagination and Ontology in R. G. Collingwood”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 14.2 (2006), pp. 303-22.

“The Vicissitude of Completeness: Gadamer’s Criticism of Collingwood”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 12.1 (2004), pp. 3-19.

“Fate, Accompli: The Doppelgänger in George Alexander’s Mortal Divide”, Modern Greek Studies. Number 10 (2004), pp. 258-69.

TRANSLATIONS

Peter Lyssiotis, Το πουλ, το καμπαναρι [The Bird, The Belltower], trans. D. Vardoulakis. Melbourne: Owl Publishing (2005).

  

Alasdair Gray, Χαμνα κορμι [Poor Things], trans. D. Vardoulakis. Athens: Nefeli (2001).

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