KAKOLIRIS GERASIMOS

Gerasimos Kakoliris

Associate Professor in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Contact Information

Τel. (office): 210 7277542

Office: 501 (5th floor), School of Philosophy main building  

Ε-mail: gkakoliris@philosophy.uoa.gr

Websites: http://uoa.academia.edu/GerasimosKakoliris, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerasimos_Kakoliris, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5545-1325

Address: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University Campus, 15772 Zografou, Athens, Greece

Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications 

• 1997 – 2002 PhD in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, U.K (Part-time). Thesis Title: “An Impossible Project: Derrida’s Deconstructive Reading As Double Reading: The Case of Of Gramatology”. Supervisor: Professor Simon Critchley.

• 1993 – 1994  M.A. in Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University  of Warwick, U.K. 

• 1990 - 1993  B.A. (Hon.) in Philosophy and Sociology, University of Essex, U.K. 

Research Interests

Contemporary French Philosophy (Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, Lean-Luc Nancy), Judith Butler, Heidegger, Theories of Hospitality, Theories of Reading, Ethics: Interdependence and Responsibility.

Published Books 

• Jacques Derrida on the Aporias of Hospitality, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

• Derrida’s Double Deconstructive Reading: The Case of Rousseau, Athens: Nissos, 2022.

Edited Books and Journals

• Jacques Derrida’s Political and Ethical Thought, Athens: Plethron Publications, 2015 (in Greek).

• Hospitality, Eneken, vol. 42, October-November-December 2016, 272 pages (in Greek).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters (only in English & French) 

• “Interdependence and Ethical Responsibility”, in Εlena Theodoropoulou (ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd On-line International Biennale of Practical Philosophy: Philosophy in Praxis. The philosophical gesture: political, ethical, educational, artistic engagements, November 25-28, 2021, Rhodes: L.R.P.Ph., 2024, 126-140

• «Jacques Derrida on Hospitality Beyond Invitation: The Visiting Other as an Unplanned Pregnancy», Ethical Perspectives 28, no. 3 (2021): 239-262.

• “Aporias of Hospitality in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Euripides’ Alcestis”, The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 18, issue 1 (2020): 15-24.

•  «A Foucauldian enquiry in the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic management», Critical Legal Thinking, 11 May 2020.

•  “Reading and Interdependence”, ThinKnow Magazine 1 (2020): 30-37.

• “Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction of Western Metaphysics: The Early Years”, Dia-noesis: A Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4, October 2017, pp. 43-62.

• “Hospitality and non-human beings: Jacques Derrida’s reading of D.H. Lawrence’s poem ‘Snake’”, Hospitality & Society, vol. 6, no. 3, 2016, pp. 243-255. 

• “Jacques Derrida on the Ethics of Hospitality”, in Elvis Imafidon (eds.), The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 144-156.

• “Misreading Rousseau? Jacques Derrida’s Deconstructive Reading of Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages”, Philosophy Study, vol. 5, no. 10, October 2015, pp. 499-512.

• “Writing as a Supplement: Jacques Derrida’s Deconstructive Reading of Rousseau’s Confessions”, Philosophy Study, vol. 5, no. 6, June 2015, pp. 302-313.

• “René Schérer et Jacques Derrida sur l’hospitalité”, in Constantin Irodotou (eds), Mélanges offerts à René Schérer, Paris: L'Harmattan (collection «Esthétiques»), 2015, pp. 191-203 (In English : “Jacques Derrida and René Schérer on Hospitality”, Dia-noesis: A Journal of Philosophy, vol. 6, 2019, pp. 23-42).

• “The ‘Undecidable’ Pharmakon: Derrida’s Reading of Plato’s Phaedrus”, The New Yearbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. XIII, 2013, pp. 223-234. In Turkish: “‘Karaverilemez Pharmakon’: Derrida’nin Phaidros Okumasi,” trans. Sadık Erol Er, in Sadık Erol Er, Birdal Akar (eds), Yaşayan Platon (Çağdaş Fransız Felsefesinde Platon Okumaları), Çizgi 2017, pp. 99-118. 

• “How Radical is Derrida’s Deconstructive Reading?”, Derrida Today, Vol. 2,  No. 2, Νοvember 2009, pp. 177-185.

• “Jacques Derrida’s Double Deconstructive Reading: A Contradiction in Terms?” in The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 35, issue 3, October 2004, pp. 283-292.

• “Derrida and Lacan on Women” in Ariadne: Scientific Yearbook of School of Philosophy, University of Crete, April 2004, vol. 10, pp. 241-261.

• “Refuting Fortenbaugh: The Relationship Between Ηθική Αρετή and Φρόνησις in Aristotle” in Philosophia: Yearbook of the Research Center for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, vol. 33, 2003, pp. 183-193.

Translations (from English & French into Greek)

• Judith Butler, “Capitalism Has Its Limits,” trans. Gerasimos Kakoliris – Kiki Kapsabeli, National Newspaper “H Efimerida ton Syntakton, Monday 20 March 2020.

• Marie-Eve Morin, “Ethics, Place and Hospitality in Jacques Derrida” (excerpt from “The Spacing of Time and the Place of Hospitality: Living Together According to Bruno Latour and Jacques Derrida”, pp. 31-35), in Gerasimos Kakoliris (ed.),  Hospitality (Special Issue), Eneken, vol. 42, October-November-December 2017, pp. 85-96.

• Jacques Derrida, “Le principe d’hospitalité,” in Gerasimos Kakoliris (ed.),  Hospitality (Special Issue), Eneken, vol. 42, October-November-December 2017, pp. 78-84. 

• Aaron James Wendland, “What Do We Owe Each Other?”, National Newspaper “Avgi”, 7 February 2016, pp. 36-37.

• Michel Foucault, “First Preface to Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique,“ Nea Hestia, vol. 169, issue 1843, April 2011, pp. 576-588.

• “Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility. A dialogue with Jacques Derrida,” in Gerasimos Kakoliris, Jacques Derrida’s Political and Ethical Thought, Athens: Plethron Publications, 2015, pp. 312-338.

• Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy. A Very Short Introduction, To Vema / Greek Letters Publishing Company, Athens 2006.

• Jacques Derrida, “La différance,” Poiesis, vol. 27, Spring – Summer 2006, pp. 61-78 (1st part) & Vol. 28, Autumn -Winter 2006, pp. 201-216 (2nd part). 

Conducted Interviews 

• Jean-Luc Nancy, “Aspects of the Being-in-common: The Frozen Waters of Europe, Biotechnology, Worldly Christianism” (A conversation with Athina Athanasiou, Gerasimos Kakoliris & Apostolos Lampropoulos), Contemporary Issues, issue 128-129, January - June 2015, pp. 26-34 (in Greek).

• “Entretien avec René Schérer par Gerasimos Kakoliris” (2013), Ici et ailleurs, mardi 15 août 2017. Initially published in Greek as “Hospitality and Utopia: An Interview with René Schérer,” Avgi Greek National Newspaper, Sunday, 13^th October 2013, p. 4.

Participation in Documentaries

• “Philoxenia.” Written, directed & produced by Dagmar Donners, Fabian Pop and Iliriana Banjska in cooperation with Utrecht University, 2013.

Conference Organization

• International Conference: Being / Intimate / Political, Jean-Luc Nancy, 4-5 March 2015, Athens (in collaboration with Professor Apostolos Lampropoulos). (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – French Institute of Greece – University Bordeaux Montaigne).

• Greek-French Philosophical Conference: Offering Hospitality to René Schérer / René Schérer on Hospitality, Athens French Institute, 18th October 2013, Athens, Greece (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – French Institute of Greece). 

• International Conference: Jacques Derrida’s Political and Ethical Thought, 24-26 January 2013, Athens, Greece (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – French Institute of Greece).

Sites

• Contemporary French Philosophy in Greece: www.frenchphilosophy.gr