Professor Dimitris Vardoulakis
Professor,
Humanities (Arts)
Biography
aProfessor Dimitris Vardoulakis is the chair of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP). He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy (2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka’s Laughter (2016), Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (2018), and Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism. He has also edited or co-edited numerous books, including Spinoza Now (2011) and Spinoza’s Authority, 2 volumes (2018). He is the director of "Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society," and co-editor of the book series "Incitement" for Edinburgh University Press and founding co-editor of hte journal Philosophy, Politics and Critique. His research interests range from the relation between literature and philosophy to theories of power and sovereignty, as well as the history of materialism and theories of agonistic democracy. He has a particular interest in the works of Baruch Spinoza, Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida.
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Qualifications
- PhD Monash University
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Humanities (Arts)
Contact
| Email: | D.Vardoulakis@westernsydney.edu.au |
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Publications
Books
- Vardoulakis, D. (2020), 'Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism', : Edinburgh University Press 9781474476041.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy', : Fordham University Press 9780823277391.
- Kordela, K. and Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Spinoza's Authority Volume II: Resistance and Power in the Political Treatises', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781350011069.
- Kordela, K. and Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Spinoza's Authority Volume I: Resistance and Power in Ethics', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781472593207.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2016), 'Freedom From the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter', : State University of New York Press 9781438462394.
- Benjamin, A. and Vardoulakis, D. (2015), 'Sparks will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger', : Suny Press 9781438455051.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2013), 'Sovereignty and Its Other : Toward the Dejustification of Violence', : Fordham University Press 9780823251353.
- Monagle, C. and Vardoulakis, D. (2013), 'The Politics of Nothing: On Sovereignty', : Routledge 9780415509381.
- Vardoulakis, D. and Kordela, K. (2011), 'Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages', : Palgrave Macmillan 9781349295265.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2010), 'The Doppelganger: Literature's Philosophy', : Fordham 9780823232987.
- Hill, L., Nelso, B. and Vardoulakis, D. (2005), 'After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy', : Delaware Press 0874139465.
Chapters in Books
- Vardoulakis, D. (2021), 'Spinoza on the death of the master : the Hebrew theocracy after Moses', In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy, Walter De Gruyter 9783110699050.
- Vardoulakis, D., Wang, C., Chang, Y. and Zhang, Z. (2021), 'Spinoza, Marx and the materialist tradition', Yearly Report on Studies of Marxism Abroad 2020, People's Publishing House 9787010235240.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Equality and power : Spinoza's reformulation of the Aristotelian tradition of egalitarianism', Spinoza's Authority Volume I: Resistance and Power in Ethics, Bloomsbury Academic 9781472593207.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Authority and the law : the primacy of justification over legitimacy in Spinoza', Spinoza's Authority Volume II: Resistance and Power in the Political Treatises, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350011069.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Spinoza's authority in the treatises : an introduction', Spinoza's Authority Volume II: Resistance and Power in the Political Treatises, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350011069.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2015), 'A matter of immediacy : the political ontology of the artwork in Benjamin and Heidegger', Sparks will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, State University of New York Press 9781438455051.
- Benjamin, A. and Vardoulakis, D. (2015), 'Introduction : "Sparks Will Fly"', Sparks will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, State University of New York Press 9781438455051.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2013), 'Kafka's empty law : laughter and freedom in The Trial', Philosophy and Kafka, Lexington Books 9780739180891.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2012), 'Spinoza's empty law : the possibility of political theology', Spinoza Beyond Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press 9780748644803.
- Monagle, C. and Vardoulakis, D. (2012), 'Introduction. The negativity of sovereignty, now', The Politics of Nothing : On Sovereignty, Routledge 9780415509381.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2012), 'The Greek Utopia : Aris Alexandrou's The mission box', Literature and Politics: Pushing the World in Certain Directions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443835749.
- Kordela, K. and Vardoulakis, D. (2011), 'Kafka's cages : an introduction', Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages, Palgrave 9780230113428.
- Kordela, K. and Vardoulakis, D. (2011), 'Kafka's cages : an introduction', Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages, Palgrave 9780230113428.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2011), 'The Fall is the proof of our freedom: Mediated Freedom in Kafka', Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages, Palgrave 9780230113428.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2011), 'Spinoza Now', Spinoza Now, University of Minnesota Press 9780816672806.
- Bal, M. and Vardoulakis, D. (2011), 'An Inter-action: Rembrandt and Spinoza', Spinoza Now, University of Minnesota Press 9780816672806.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2006), 'Gray, Alasdair', Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, Routledge 9781579584412.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2005), '"What terrifying complicity" : Jean Paul as collocutor in Death Sentence', After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy, University of Delaware Press 9780874139464.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2005), 'The subject of history: The temporality of parataxis in Benjamin's historiography', Walter Benjamin and History, Continuum 9780826467461.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2005), 'Peter Lyssiotis: Photopoems', The Bird, The Belltower, Owl Publishing 9780958187411.
Journal Articles
- Vardoulakis, D. (2023), 'Heidegger's other path : the problematic of action within monism', Philosophy Today, vol 67, no 2 , pp 273 - 294.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2023), 'Toward an epicurean politics : the two instrumentalities (phronesis and the ineffectual)', Crisis and Critique, vol 10, no 1 , pp 296 - 322.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2022), 'Review : Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom by Dan Taylor and Spinoza's Religion by Clare Carlisle', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 30, no 5 , pp 897 - 901.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2021), 'The Invention of Nihilism: Political Monism, Epicureanism, and Spinoza', Crisis and Critique, vol 8, no 1 , pp 510 - 535.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2020), 'Freedom as overcoming the fear of death : Epicureanism in the subtitle of Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise', Parrhesia, vol 32 , pp 33 - 60.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2020), 'Why Is Spinoza an Epicurean?', Epoche, vol 24, no 2 , pp 389 - 409.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2020), 'The antinomy of frictionless sovereignty : inverse relations of authority and authoritarianism', b2o: an online journal, vol 20/08/2020 .
- Vardoulakis, D. (2020), 'Hobbes or Spinoza? : two epicurean versions of the social contract', In Circolo: Rivista di Filosofia e Culture, vol 9 , pp 186 - 210.
- Vardoulakis, D. and Voss, D. (2020), 'Introduction : Spinoza's provocation', Parrhesia, vol 32 , pp 1 - 2.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2020), 'Radicalizing radical negativity : on Oliver Marchant's Thinking Antagonism', Etica e Politica, vol 22, no 3 , pp 581 - 605.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2020), 'The three apples : agonistic democracy in the age of calculation', Philosophy Today, vol 64, no 4 , pp 913 - 918.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2019), 'The figure of Moses : the origins of authority in Spinoza', Textual Practice, vol 33, no 5 , pp 771 - 785.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2019), 'Spinoza's law : the epicurean definition of the law in the Theological Political Treatise', Radical Philosophy, vol 2019, no 2.05 , pp 23 - 33.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2019), 'Neo-Epicureanism', Philosophy Today, vol 63, no 4 , pp 1011 - 1022.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Autoimmunities : Derrida, democracy and political theology', Research in Phenomenology, vol 48, no 1 , pp 29 - 56.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Conflict as the quasi-transcendental : or, why Spinoza's Theologcal Political Treatise matters for transindividuality', Australasian Philosophical Review, vol 2, no 1 , pp 107 - 112.
- Kelly, M. and Vardoulakis, D. (2018), 'Balibar and transindividuality', Australasian Philosophical Review, vol 2, no 1 , pp 1 - 4.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2017), 'How many does it take to dance? : the mystery of the political in G. K. Chesterton', Paragraph, vol 40, no 2 , pp 174 - 192.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2017), 'Stasis : notes toward agonist democracy', Theory and Event, vol 20, no 3 , pp 699 - 725.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2017), 'Solon's ekstatic stratgy : stasis and the subject/citizen', Cultural Critique, vol 96 , pp 71 - 100.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2017), 'What comes before the citizen? : violence and the limits of the political in Balibar', Philosophy Today, vol 61, no 4 , pp 909 - 928.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2016), 'Power, power and equality : Spinoza against Aristotle', Philosophizing: science, favor, boldness, vol 13 , pp 23 - 39.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2016), 'Agonistic equality in Ranciere and Spinoza', Synthesis, vol 9 , pp 14 - 34.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2014), 'The freedom to lie', Philosophy Today, vol 58, no 2 , pp 141 - 162.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2014), '< Le plus grand logicien du vingtieme siecle > : la liberte selon Derrida', Rue Descartes, vol 82 , pp 145 - 148.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2014), 'How can we resist sovereignty?', Chronos, vol 19 .
- Vardoulakis, D. (2012), '"Invincible Eros" : democracy and the vicissitudes of participation in Antigone', Law and Literature, vol 24, no 2 , pp 213 - 231.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2012), 'On what conditions is one free to lie', Contemporary Issues, vol 34, no 118-119 , pp 87 - 94.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2010), 'War and its other : review of Nick Mansfield's Theorizing War: From Hobbes to Badiou', Cultural Studies Review, vol 16, no 1 , pp 267 - 272.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2010), 'The ends of stasis : spinoza as a reader of Agamben', Culture, Theory and Critique, vol 51, no 2 , pp 145 - 156.
- Vardoulakis, D. and Monagle, C. (2010), 'Introduction - The Politics of Nothing: Sovereignty and Modernity', Culture, Theory and Critique, vol 51, no 2 , pp 111 - 114.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2010), 'The quintessence of dust : sovereignty and creaturely life', Parallax, vol 16, no 4 , pp 60 - 69.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2009), 'Spectres of Duty: Silence in Ibsen's Ghosts', Orbis Litterarum, vol 64, no 1 , pp 50 - 74.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2009), 'Beside(s) : Elizabeth Presa with Jacques Derrida', Derrida Today, vol 2, no 2 , pp 200 - 209.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2009), 'Stasis : beyond political theology?', Cultural Critique, vol 73 , pp 125 - 147.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2009), 'Confession and Time: The Subject in Papadiamantes' The Merchants of the Nations', Modern Language Notes, vol 124, no 5 , pp 1091 - 1115.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2009), 'Between logos and icons : notes towards a transfigurative culture', Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, vol 1, no 2 , pp 175 - 186.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2008), 'The 'Poor Thing' : the cosmopolitan in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things', SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, vol 37, no 3 , pp 137 - 151.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2006), 'The Pure Machine's Gambit: Walter Benjamin's Thesis I', Arena, , pp 12 - 12.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2006), 'The Return of Negation: The Doppelganger in Freud's The 'Uncanny'', Substance, , pp 17 - 17.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2006), 'Total Imagination and Ontology in R. G. Collingwood', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, , pp 21 - 21.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2005), ''Clumsy questioners' : questioning and the meaning of meaning in Collingwood', Collingwood and British Idealism, , pp 21 - 21.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2005), 'Imperatives: Andrew Benjamin, Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2004)', Colloquy: text theory critique, , pp 10 - 10.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2004), 'The critique of loneliness : towards the political motives of the doppelganger', Angelaki, vol 9, no 2 , pp 81 - 101.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2004), 'The vicissitude of completeness : Gadamer's criticism of Collingwood', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 12, no 1 , pp 3 - 19.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2003), 'Fait, Accompli: The Doppelganger in George Alexander's Mortal Divide', Modern Greek Studies, vol 11 , pp 258 - 269.
Conference Papers
- Vardoulakis, D. (2009), 'Anarchic Utopia in Aris Alexandrou's The Mission Box', International Conference of Greek Studies, Adelaide.
- Vardoulakis, D. (2007), 'Reading chapter one, part two of Papadiamantes's "The Merchants of the Nations"', Greek Research in Australia, .
- Vardoulakis, D. (2005), 'Between divine and human justice : A reading of Papadiamantes's The Murderess', Greek Research in Australia, .
- Vardoulakis, D. (2003), 'The play of Logos and Pathos: Longinus' philosophical presuppositions', Greek Research in Australia, .
Previous Projects
| Title: | Conceptual Fictions: Modern Narratives of Freedom and Equality |
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| Western Researchers: | Dimitris Vardoulakis |
| Years: | 2014-01-16 - 2015-01-16 |
| ID: | P00021959 |
Supervision
Professor Vardoulakis is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Samuel Beckett and the Post Enlightenment |
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| Thesis Title: | Phenomenological Investigation into the Pre-Legal |
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| Thesis Title: | "Sorry" Seems to be the Hardest Word: A Phenomenological Exposition of the Communal Apology |
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| Thesis Title: | Heroic Passivities of Bartleby, the Scrivener, the Hero, the Revolutionary and the Other |
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| Thesis Title: | Self, World and Scepticism in Hegel and Heidegger |
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| Thesis Title: | "Sorry" Seems to be the Hardest Word: A Phenomenological Exposition of the Communal Apology |
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| Thesis Title: | Heroic Passivities of Bartleby, the Scrivener, the Hero, the Revolutionary and the Other |
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| Thesis Title: | Violence and Democracy: Constituent Power in Sorel, Benjamin, Arendt and Negri |
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| Thesis Title: | Being in Immanence: Towards a Postmetaphysical Account of Truth |
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| Thesis Title: | Effect of Cultural Assumptions of Liberalism on Multicultural Theory and Policy |
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| Thesis Title: | Sovereignty Versus Democracy: Between 'Democracy to Come' and 'Global Love' |
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| Thesis Title: | Conatus and Practical Judgement in Spinoza |
| Field of Research: | Other Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | An Ontological Survey on Women's Self-awareness in Fictional Texts Amid Modern and Pre-Modern Conflict (An Existential Pattern for Philosophical Thought) |
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| Thesis Title: | Effect of Cultural Assumptions of Liberalism on Multicultural Theory and Policy |
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| Thesis Title: | When Fact Becomes Fiction and Fiction Becomes Fact: Tracing Hyperreal Contours in Alison Bechdel's Graphic Memoirs |
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| Thesis Title: | From Robert Frost to Cognitive Poetics: A Theory of Poetic Experience |
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| Thesis Title: | Sovereignty Versus Democracy: Between 'Democracy to Come' and 'Global Love' |
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| Thesis Title: | Moses and Early Modern Political Philosophy |
| Field of Research: | History |
| Thesis Title: | The Aesthetics of Care: Reading, Writing, Making |
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| Thesis Title: | An ontological survey on Women's Self-awareness in fictional texts amid modern and pre-modern Conflict (A new existential pattern for philosophical thought) |
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| Thesis Title: | Beckett and the (Un)Making of an Oeuvre: Language, Experimentation, Communication |
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