Seminars by Andrius Bielskis, Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology, Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), under the framework of Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching (at the courses by Dr Eleni Leontsini).

1) Under the framework of Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching, during the
undergraduate course “HERMENEUTICS OF PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS I” (Topic:
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics) (Lecturer: Dr Eleni Leontsini) a Seminar will take
place by Dr Andrius Bielskis, Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of
Technology, Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for
Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania)
on the topic: “Aristotle and Normative Critical Theory: Intersections between
Marxism and Aristotelianism” [Friday, 3-11-2023 (12.00-15.00)] at the Laboratory for
Platonic and Aristotelian Studies (2 nd floor, Philosophy Building).
2) Under the framework of Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching, during the
undergraduate course “SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY III:
PLATO – ARISTOTLE” (Lecturer: Dr Eleni Leontsini) a Seminar will take place by
Dr Andrius Bielskis, Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology,
Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Aristotelian Studies
and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania) on the topic:
“Critique of Aristotle’s Natural Inequalities” [Friday, 3-11-2023 (15.00-18.00)] at the
Laboratory for Platonic and Aristotelian Studies (2 nd floor, Philosophy Building).
Short Bio
Andrius Bielskis is Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, Professor
of Political Theory at Mykolas Romeris University, and the Director of its Centre for Aristotelian
Studies and Critical Theory (https://aristotelianstudies.mruni.eu/). He is also the co-founder and
Director of DEMOS Institute of Critical Thought. His research interests are political philosophy,
contemporary Aristotelianism, Marx, and critical theory. Andrius is the author of several books
including Towards a Postmodern Understanding of the Political (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005), The
Unholy Sacrament (Demos, 2014), On the Meaning of Philosophy and Art (MRU, 2015), Existence,
Meaning, Excellence (Routledge, 2017), and the (co-)editor of Virtue Ethics and Contemporary
Aristotelianism (with E. Leontsini & K. Knight, Bloomsbury, 2020), Virtue and Economy: Essays on
Morality and Markets (Routledge, 2015), Debating with the Lithuanian New Left: Terry Eagleton, Joel
Bakan, Alex Demirovic, Ulrich Brand (Demos, 2014) and Democracy without Labour movement?
(Demos, 2009). He was an International Onassis Fellow at the University of Athens in 2017-2018
pursuing research on the critique of natural inequalities, especially the notorious argument for the
existence of natural slaves, in Aristotle’s Politics.