Antonios Kalatzis studied Political Sciences and History at the Department of Political Sciences of the Panteion University of Athens. He completed his dissertation on G.W.F. Hegel’s Science of Logic at the Department of Philosophy of the Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. Before joining the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina in 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013-2017) and Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Group “Dynamics and Experiences of the ‘Global’” at the Centre Marc Bloch e.V., the German-French Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2017-2021). His research focuses on Classical German Philosophy and its reception in current philosophical debates. He is currently working on a monograph on the reception of Ιmmanuel Kant’s definition of Enlightenment from Kant’s time until today.
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Modern European Philosophy (17.-19. century)
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Department of Philosophy School of Humanities University of Ioannina Campus 45500, Ioannina, Greece
Curriculum vitae
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Studies
- Doctorate Degree
Department of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
Dissertation Title: Explikation und Immanenz. Das dreifache Argument der Wissenschaft der Logik
First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Arndt
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte - University Diploma
Department of Political Sciences, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences - High-School Diploma
Lycée Léonin Francophone Hellénique de Nea Smyrni
Research interests
- Classical German Philosophy (esp. Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel)
- The Reception of Classical German Philosophy in the 20th and 21st century
- German-Jewish Philosophy (esp. Franz Rosenzweig)
Publications
Monographs
Exodus. Five Variations on the theme of Enlightenment (Kant-Hamann-Foucault-Habermas-Geuss), (in preparation)
Explikation und Immanenz. Das dreifache Argument der Wissenschaft der Logik (510 pp.), Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter (forthcoming)
Pleroma. Logic, God and Man in the Philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel (200 pp.), Athens: Nissos Academic Publishers 2025 (in print)
Edited Volumes
Franz Rosenzweig and the History of Philosophy, (230 pp.), Berlin: Neofelis Verlag (forthcoming)
“Into Life.” Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge Aesthetics and Politics (345 pp.): Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, vol. 31 (2021)
Articles
“Critique, Metacritique, Aesthetics: J.G. Hamman’s Critique of Kant”, in: Dodoni 41 (2025) (paper submitted) (in Greek)
“Autonomy, Aesthetics, Authority: Concepts and Limits of Enlightenment in Kant and Foucault”, in: Ariadne 30 (2023-2024) (in print) (in Greek)
“‘Metaphilosophy’ in Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy”, in: History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 27 (2024), 233-262. DOI: 10.30965 / 26664275-BJA10109
“Reflective Power of Judgment and Philosophy of Revolution. ‘Heautonomy’ in Kant and in Gunnar Hindrichs”, in: G. Maggini and D. Arvanitakis (eds.), Revolution, Nation-State and Ancient Greek Ideal. Philosophical Approaches to the Greek Revolution, Benaki Museum Publications 2023, 187-208
“Am Anfang war das Ende. Hegels »Lehre vom Wesen« und der Ansatz einer spekulativen Theologie”, in: Jesper Lundsfryd and Christoph Asmuth (eds.), Philosophisches Anfangen. Reflexionen des Anfangs als Charakteristikum des neuzeitlichen und modernen Denkens, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2023, pp. 149-158
“Episodic Genius. Autonomous Artistic Agency in the Star of Redemption”, in: A. Kalatzis and E. Lucca (eds.), “Into Life”. Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics and Politics: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 31 (2021), pp. 111-138
“The Singularity of the Concept – The Singularity of the Will. On the Logical Ground of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”, in: P. D. Bubbio, A. De Cesaris, M. Pagano, H. Weslati (eds.), Hegel, Logic and Speculation, London: Bloomsbury 2019, pp. 73-85
“Bridging without Bridges. Rosenzweig on the Relation between Philosophy and Theology”, in: Archivio di Filosofia 86/1 (2018), pp. 93-102
“Intelligenz und Logik. Hegels Begriff des Denkens zwischen Wissenschaft der Logik, Philosophie des subjektiven- und des absoluten Geistes”, in: Erkenne dich selbst. Anthropologische Perspektiven, Hegel-Jahrbuch 11 (2018), pp. 80-86
“Faraway so close. Skepticism, subjective idealism and the Problem of »Shine« in Hegel’ s Science of Logic”, in: G. Faraklas, J. Kozatsas J. (eds.), Hegel and Scepticism, in: Hegel-Jahrbuch Sonderband 10 (2017), pp. 121-132
“Spekulation und Ereignis: Gott, Mensch und Welt in Hegel und Rosenzweig”, ”, in: Hackl M., Danz Chr. (eds.), Die Klassische Deutsche Philosophie und ihre Folgen, Vienna: Vienna University Press at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers 2017, pp. 250-270
“Gott oder Natur – oder Geist? Hegel über Spinoza”, in: Honnacker, A. / Ruf, Matthias (eds.): Gott oder Natur. Perspektiven nach Spinoza (=Philosophie aktuell 12), Berlin: LIT 2015, pp. 61–74
Translations
René Girard, Gewalt und Religion. Gespräche mit Wolfgang Palaver (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2010), with a new introduction: Nissos Academic Publishers 2017 (German to Greek)
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Tuesday 14:00-15:00
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