Courses
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PH-471: Introduction to political philosophy
(compulsory course, 4th semester)
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H-273:
Introduction to philosophy of history
(elective course, 6th/8th semester)
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S-360: Social theory (elective course,
5th/7th semester)
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Pr/S-050:
Biopolitics, biopower: Arendt, Foucault,
Agamben (seminar, 5t h/7th semester)
Biography
Vicky Iakovou
studied political science at Panteion
University of Social and Political Sciences. She
holds a DEA in political philosophy from the
University
of Paris
10-Nanterre (1992) and a PhD in political
philosophy from the
University
of Paris
7-Denis Diderot (2001, thesis title: Une
confrontation. Hannah Arendt et la Théorie
Critique). She gained scholarships from the
Academy
of Versailles
(1991-1992) and the Greek State Scholarships
Foundation (IKY, 1994-1998). Her main research
and teaching interests involve modern and
contemporary political and social philosophy,
the critical theory of the Frankfurt School,
the influence of psychoanalysis on political and
social theory, and the tradition of utopian
thought. She has translated into Greek books and
articles by, among others, H. Arendt, Cl. Lefort,
J. Rancière, P. Ricoeur and Sl. Zizek.
Selected Publications
a. In Greek
- «Hannah Aren't and Concentration Camps»,
Synchrona
Themata, 83, December 2003, pp.
41-43
- «Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis. Between
Recognition and Misrecognition», in Th. Lipowatz,
P. Papatheorodou,
The
Modern Subject in front of the Other’s Demand,
Nissos, Athens 2007, pp. 173-208
- «Art of Writing and Art of Reading according
to Leo Strauss»,
Synchrona Themata, 102, July-September
2008, p. 26-34
- «Adorno’s Analysis of Anti-Semitism»,
Axiologika, 20, November 2008, pp. 11-24
- «The Concept of Forgiveness in Hannah Arendt»,
Synchrona Themata, 103, October-December
2008, pp. 67-72
- «Critical Theory and Modernity», in
S. Koniordos (ed.),
Social
Thought and Modernity, Gutenberg, Athens
2010, pp. 297-324
- «Leo Strauss’ s Interpretation of Modern
Political Philosophy: The case of Machiavelli»,
Ypomnima sti Philosophia, 9, September
2010, pp. 281-310
- «Comments on Hannah Arendt’s
Origins of Totalitarianism»,
Science and Society. Journal of Political and
Moral Theory, 25, fall 2010, pp. 205-215
- «‘A society without utopia would be a society
without goals’. On the Concept of Utopia in the
work of Paul Ricœur»,
Nea
Hestia,
1847 (special
issue on P. Ricœur), September 2011, pp. 282-303
- «Democracy and Totalitarianism. Confronting G.
Agamben with Cl. Lefort», in S. Seferiadis, D.
Charalampis (eds.),
Democracy at a Crossroads: Threats and
Challenges at the Dawn of the 21st Century,
Kastaniotis, Athens (forthcoming, 6.000 words)
- «The Limits of Utopia», in L. Ventoura, D.
Karydas, G. Kouzelis,
Frontiers/Limits, Society for the Study
of Humanities, Topika 13, Nissos, Athens
(forthcoming, 6.400 words)
b. In French
- «Le concept de critique entre Hannah Arendt et
l’Ecole de Francfort»,
Tumultes, 17-18 (special issue «L’Ecole
de Francfort: la Théorie Critique entre
philosophie et sociologie»), May 2002, p.
259-278
- «Quand “tous parlaient une seule et même
langue…”: Réflexions à partir de
LTI.
La langue du Troisième Reich de V.
Klemperer», in A. Cain (ed.),
Espace(s)
public(s), espace(s) privé(s): enjeux et
partages, L’Harmattan, Paris 2004, p.
221-233
- «Adorno lecteur de Freud», in A. Kupiec,
E. Tassin
(eds.),
Critique de la politique. Autour de Miguel
Abensour, Sens & Tonka, Paris 2006, p.
407-416
c. In English
- «Totalitarianism as a Νon-State: On Hannah
Arendt’s Debt to Franz Neumann»,
European Journal of Political Theory,
8(4), 2009, pp. 29-47
- «Towards a critique of the critique of
utopia», in V. Vlastaras (ed.),
Utopia
Project Archive 2006-2010, Athens School
of Fine Arts, Athens 2011, pp. 53-57 (also in
Greek, p. 389-393)
- «To Think Utopia with and beyond Paul Ricœur»,
in Τ. Mei, D. Lewin (eds.)
From
Ricœur to Action: The Socio-political
Significance of Ricoœur’s Thinking,
Continuum, London 2012, pp. 113-135
Translations (selection)
a. Βooks
- A. Giddens,
Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max
Weber,
Athens
1993 (in collaboration with Y. Stavrakakis)
- S. Žižek,
Did
Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five interventions
in the (mis)use of a notion, Scripta,
Athens 2002
- S. Žižek,
Welcome to the Desert of the Real! Five Essays
on September 11 and Related Dates,
Scripta, Athens 2003
- S. Žižek,
The
Sublime Object of Ideology, Scripta,
Athens 2006
- P. Ricœur,
Soi-même comme un autre, Polis, Athens
2008
- J. Rancière,
La
haine de la démocratie, Pedio, Athens
2009
- G. Durozol, A. Roussel,
Dictionnaire de philosophie, Patakis,
Athens 2010 (in collaboration with Sp. Tegos and
Th. Traboulis)
b. Articles
- R. G. Collingwood, «The Idea of Nature», in Y.
Stavrakakis (ed.),
Nature, Society and Politics, Nissos, Athens 1998
- H. Arendt, «Social Science Techniques and the
Study of Concentration Camps»,
Synchrona Themata, 83, December 2003
- Cl. Lefort, «Le corps interposé.
1984
de George Orwell»,
Synchrona
Themata, 90, July-September 2005
- P. Ricœur, «Le paradoxe politique»,
Synchrona
Themata, 97, April-June 2007,
- J. Rancière, «The Politics of Aesthetics», in
Y. Stavrakakis, K. Stafilakis (eds.),
The
Political in Contemporary Art, Ekkremes,
Athens 2008
- L. Strauss, «Persecution and the Art of
Writing»,
Synchrona
Themata, 102, July-September 2008
- Α. Balassopoulos, «Anti-Utopia and Distopia.
Rethinking the Generic Field», in V. Vlastaras
(ed.),
Utopia Project Archive 2006-2010, Athens
School of Fine Arts, Athens 2011
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P. Ricœur, «La psychanalyse confrontée à
l’épistémologie»,
Nea
Hestia,
1847 (special
issue on P. Ricœur), September 2011
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