Kavoulakos, Konstantinos

Position: Professor
Office: 206 Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Telephone: 2310.99.7321
Email: kavoulakos@edlit.auth.gr
Full CV: Kavoulakos CV (.pdf)
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Research Interests:

  • Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Culture
  • Critical Theory

Selected Publications:

  1. Jürgen Habermas: The Foundations of Reason and Critical Social Theory, Athens 1996 (in Greek).
  2. Beyond Metaphysics and Scientism. The Interdisciplinary Materialism of Max Horkheimer, Alexandria: Athens 2001 (in Greek).
  3. Critical Theory: Tradition and New Perspectives, (introduction-ed. K. Kavoulakos), Nissos: Athens 2003 (in Greek).
  4. Immanuel Kant: Practical Reason and Modernity, (introduction-ed. K. Kavoulakos), Alexandria: Athens 2006 (in Greek).
  5. Georg Lukács, Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat, (introduction-translation-comments K. Kavoulakos), Ekkremes: Athens 2006 (in Greek).
  6. Special issue on G. Lukács: “From Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art to Revolutionary Marxism”, (preface-ed. K. Kavoulakos), Hypomnema 6 (2007) (in Greek).
  7. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Interpretative approaches, (introduction-ed. K. Kavoulakos), Alexandria: Athens 2009 (in Greek).
  8. Tragedy and History. The Critique of Modern Culture in the Early Work of Georg Lukács (1902-1918), Alexandria: Athens 2012 (in Greek).
  9. Ästhetizistische Kulturkritik und ethische Utopie. Georg Lukács’ neukantianisches Frühwerk, special volume of Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 37, de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2014.
  10. History and Praxis. Georg Lukács’s Philosophy of Praxis, Topos Publications: Athens 2018 (in Greek).
  11. Georg Lukács’s Philosophy of Praxis. Understanding his Early Marxist Work Anew, Bloomsbury: London and New York 2018.
  12. «What is Reification in Georg Lukács’s Early Marxist Work?», Thesis Eleven 157/1 (2020), σελ. 41-59.