The Sector of Philosophy of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina decided (conference no. 81/27-9-1988) to duly propose, in accordance with the research and teaching interests of its members, the establishment of an Academic Research Institute under the name: Laboratory for the Documentation and Study of the History of Social and Political Ideas. The relevant proposal was accepted by the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology (conference no. 699/17-1-1989) and by the Senate of our Institution (conference no. 672/23-2-1989) and forwarded to the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (3-3-1989). Since then, the Laboratory operated “informally” and promoted its objectives at a satisfactory rate, until its formal establishment (24.7.2001) under the direction of Professor (at the time) (and currently Professor Emeritus) Panagiotis Noutsos, in accordance with a decision of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology (conference no. 241/12-2-2003).

In 2017, Assistant Professor Iordanis Marcoulatos was elected Director of the Laboratory for the Documentation and Study of the History of Social and Political Ideas (Government Gazette 724/29.12.2017).

In 2020, Associate Professor Konstantinos Rantis was elected Director of the Laboratory for the Documentation and Study of the History of Social and Political Ideas (Government Gazette 1010/Y.O.D.D./03.12.2020).

The Laboratory for the Documentation and Study of the History of Social and Political Ideas constitutes an integral part of the cycle of graduate study and research in Social and Political Philosophy, as cultivated by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina, in collaboration with allied Departments and corresponding Research Centers abroad (for instance, the International Institut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, in Amsterdam). More specifically, it pursues the indexing and codification of informational units regarding the history of social and political ideas, the establishment of a corresponding specialized library, and the preservation of archival material belonging to (and/or concerning) specific individuals or collective movements.

Two separate spaces which contain rare books and manuscripts.

In the context of undertaking research programs of a historiographical nature, expert monographs are being composed, regarding issues that emerge in the course of development of social and political ideas, in our country as well as abroad, thus creating a fertile environment for the further advancement of the graduate-studies program of our Department.

Panagiotis Noutsos, Database. Bioergography (of the years 1966-2006), Ioannina2007, pp.36-37 and on the website of the Laboratory http://ppp.uoi.gr/etmikpi.

1. Panagiotis Noutsos, Database. Bioergography (of the years 1966-2006), Ioannina2007, pp. 57-59, Bioergography (of the years 2007-2015), Ioannina2015, pp.29-30, and on the website of the laboratory http://ppp.uoi.gr/etmikpi.
2. Konstantinos Rantis: “Social Theory in Greece, 1974-2012. Psychopedis, Kondylis, Castoriadis, Giannaras”, Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, Vol. 36/37, 2013, pp. 187-206.
3. Konstantinos Rantis: “The crisis of contemporary Greek Society, its philosophical critique, and the outline of an interdisciplinary research initiative”, Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, Vol.42/43, 2016, pp. 246-263.
4. Konstantinos Rantis: “Normativity in the ‘philosophical social theory’ of Karl Marx” (in Greek), Greek Review of Political Science, Vol. 46, 2020, pp. 124-147. URL: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hpsa/article/view/20852
5. Konstantinos Rantis (Ed.). Social and Political Philosophy Today: A Tribute to Panagiotis Noutsos, Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Philosophy. Athens: Papazisi Publications, 2022.
6. Konstantinos Rantis (2022): “Adorno and empirical social research” (in press).
7. Iordanis Marcoulatos, “The Political Dimensions of Embodiment: towards a political phenomenology” (in Greek), Dodoni (University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology), Vol. 35, Ioannina 2008-2010, pp. 93-128.
8. Iordanis Marcoulatos, “The Elementary Forms of Social Life: rereading Durkheim’s genetic ontology of the social in light of contemporary practice theory”, Philosophia (Academy of Αthens), Vol. 50, Athens 2020, pp. 25-54.
9. Aglaia Mela, “On Multiculturalism. The Dialogue between Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas”, Axiologika (in Greek), Vol. 23, 2010, pp. 57-71.
10. Aglaia Mela, “Refuges, Identities, Borders: The Limits of European Humanism” (in Greek), dia-LOGOS, Vol. 9, 2019, pp. 150-162.

Master’s Theses which fall into the field of research interests of the Laboratory, and were prepared in the context of our [inter-departmental] Program of Graduate Studies, “Greek Philosophy–Philosophy of the Sciences”:

1. Dimitrios Argyros, “Radicalism in Greece as a ‘form of life’, after the restoration of democracy (1974-1990): an epistemological approach” (Ioannina, 2019).
2. Antigone Blatsiou, “The concept of style in the thought of Maurice Merleau–Ponty” (Ioannina, 2019).
3. Nina Antoniadou, “Power and emancipation in the thought of Michel Foucault” (Ioannina, 2019).
4. Giorgos Vasilakis, “The possible and the contingent in foucaultian thought” (Ioannina, 2021).