Associate Professor Dimitris Vardoulakis

Associate Professor Dimitris Vardoulakis

Associate Professor,
Philosophy@westernsydney (SoHCA)

Biography

Dimitris Vardoulakis is the deputy chair of the Philosophy Research Initiative. 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), and Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (2018). 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. His research interests range from the relation between literature and philosophy to theories of power and sovereignty. 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)

  • Philosophy@westernsydney (SoHCA)

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. (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. (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. (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
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Dimitris Vardoulakis
Years: 2014-01-16 - 2015-01-16
ID: P00021959

Supervision

Associate Professor Vardoulakis is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects ?

Current Supervision

Thesis Title: From Robert Frost to Cognitive Poetics: A Theory of Poetic Experience
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