Konstantinos Rantis

Field

History of Philosophy – Social Philosophy

O.G.G. of Appointment
862/15-3-2024/issue 3
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Philosophy Department School of Philosophy University Campus PO Box 1186 PC 45500, Ioannina, Greece
Tel: +30265100-5684
Email: krantis@uoi.gr
Curriculum vitae
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Konstantinos Rantis is professor of History of Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina. He studied philosophy, sociology, psychology and pedagogy in Greece and Germany. He received a doctorate from Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg i. Br. for his dissertation titled: “On the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’” (“Zum Verhältnis von Psychoanalyse und ‘Dialektik der Aufklärung’”). He taught at the Universities of Education in Freiburg and Ludwigsburg, at the Universities of Thessaly, Volos, at Panteion University, Athens, and also as a visiting researcher at the Department of Philosophy at J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M. and worked as a visiting researcher at the Husserl Archive of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg i. Br. Since June 2010 he teaches at the University of Ioannina. In his didactic work and his scientific research work, the History of Philosophy combines both Social Philosophy under the aspect of Critical Theory.

Studies

1981- 1983, Diploma in Pedagogy from the Pedagogical Academy of Larissa

1984-1988, Diploma in Sociology from the Panteion University of Athens

1993- 1999, Doctorate in Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Phil. Faculty IV, Degree Programme Philosophy, Sociology und Psychology, Dissertation with Prof. Dr Ute Guzzoni on the Topic: Zum Verhältnis von Psychoanalyse und »Dialektik der Aufklärung« (On the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and „Dialectics of the Enlightment“)

2004-2006, Diploma in General Education of the Marasleion Didaskaleion of the National University of Athens

Research interests
  • Social Philosophy, Critical Theory
  • History of Philosophy
  • Theory of Knowledge – Metaphysics
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy of Nature
Publications
  1. Rantis, K. (2024). Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Three Lectures. Trikala: Epekeina (forthcoming).
  2. Rantis, K. (2023). „The philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Disenchantment and Rationalization in the ‘period of the Greek Enlightenment’“ (Gr.), in: G. Maggini & D. Arvanitakis (eds.), Revolution, Nation-State, and Ancient Greek Ideal: Philosophical Approaches to the Greek Revolution, University of Ioannina – Laboratory on Research in the Sciences, Technology and Culture & Benaki Museum, 85-89.
  3. Rantis, K. (2022). Apparatus Criticus, Vol. 2, in: Herbert Marcuse. Beyond the Reality Principle. Five Lectures, Vol. 1 (Gr.), Trikala: Epekeina.
  4. Rantis, K. (2022). „The Social Philosophy bei Max Horkheimers Work in the 1930s“ (Gr.), in: Konstantinos Rantis (2022) (ed.). Social and Political Philosophy Today. Homage to Emer. Prof. Panagiotis Noutsos, Athens: Papazisi Edition, 389-403.
  5. Rantis, K. (2020). „The Normativity of „Philosophical Social Theory“ of Karl Marx“ (Gr.), in: Greek Political Science Review, 46/2020, pp. 124-147. URL: https://doi.org/10.12681/hpsa.20852
  6. Rantis Κ. (2019). «Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft und Marcuses Befreiung der Natur», Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie. 48/49, 101-116. DOI: 10.28937/9783866748491_6
  7. Rantis, K. (2018): «Adornos Theorie der Kulturindustrie. Eine kritische Bewertung in Zeiten kapitalistischer Globalisierung», στο Martin Niederauer/Gerhard Schweppenhäuser (επιμ.), „Kulturindustrie“: Theoretische und empirische Annäherungen an einen populären Begriff, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 87-104.
  8. Rantis Κ. (2017). «Neither Fate nor Decline: The Crisis of Modern Greek Society in Kostas Axelos and Panagiotis Kondylis». Στο G. Maggini/V. P. Solomou-Papanikolaou/H. Karabatzaki/K. D. Koskeridis (επιμ.), Philosophy and Crisis: Responding to Challenges to Ways of Life in the Contemporary World, τόμ II, Washington, 377-393.
  9. Rantis Κ. (2016). «Die Krise der gegenwärtigen griechischen Gesellschaft, ihre philosophische Kritik und die Umrisse eines interdisziplinären Forschungsprojektes». Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, 42/43, 246-263. DOI: 10.28937/9783866746411_13
  10. Rantis, K. (2015): «Die Rehabilitierung des Naturschönen und die Umweltproblematik», στο Myriam Gerhard (επιμ.), Studien zur Naturphilosophie, τόμ. 4: Naturauffassungen jenseits denen der Naturwissenschaften, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 105-136.
  11. Rantis, Κ. (2013). «Gesellschaftstheorie in Griechenland 1974-2012. Psychopedis, Kondylis, Castoriadis, Giannaras». Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, 36/37, 187-206. DOI: 10.28937/9783866746664_11
  12. Rantis, Κ. (2009). . „The Dialectical or the Historical Images in the Critical Theory by Horkheimer, Benjamin und Adorno“ (Gr.), Axiologika, 22/2009, 59-84.
  13. Rantis, Κ. (2007). „The Theory of Knowledge in the Marxian Social Theory“ (Gr.), The Greek Review of Social Research, 123/2007, pp. 113-144. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.9209
  14. Rantis, K. (2005): «Adornos Bildungstheorie», Interkulturell und Global. Forum für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Erziehung, Bildung und globales Lernen, Vol. 3/4, 259-285.
  15. Rantis, K. (2004). „Honneth versus Horkheimer. Frankfurt’s Institute of Social Research and its new scientific Paradigm“ (Gr.), The Greek Review of Social Research, 114/ 2004, pp. 3-25. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.9274
  16. Rantis Κ. (2004). «Adornos Kritik der antiken Ontologie». Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, 18/19, 201-218. DOI: 10.28937/9783866748453_14
  17. Rantis, K. (2004). Nature and Spirit. From the Presocratics to Critical Theory [Geist und Natur. Von den Vorsokratikern zur Kritischen Theorie] (Germ.), Darmstadt: WBG (eBook: 2006).
  18. Rantis, K. (2001): Psychoanalysis and ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’ [Psychoanalyse und »Dialektik der Aufklärung«] (Germ.), Lüneburg: zu Klampen.
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