Publications

Books
  1. Die erste “zweite Fahrt”. Sein des Seienden und Erscheinen der Welt bei Parmenides. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 1997, 301 pp.
  2. Ο πρώτος “δεύτερος πλους”. Είναι και Κόσμος στο ποίημα του Παρμενίδη. Heraclion: Crete University Press 1998, 266 pp.
  3. Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? Athens: Patakis 2000, 42009, 198 pp. [Prolegomena: 11-66, Translation in Greek: 67-126, Commentary: 127-98].
  4. W.F. Hegel, Reason in History. Introduction to the Philosophy of History. Athens: Metaihmio 2006, 363 pp. [Prolegomena: 11-98, Translation in Greek: 99-218, Commentary: 219-363].
  5. Parmenides, Cosmos, and Being. A Philosophical Interpretation. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press 2007, 109 pp.
  6. Hegel, Prefaces and Introductions (Translation in Greek and Commentary). Heraclion: Crete University Press 2021, 406 pp.
  7. Modern European Philosophy. Α Bibliographic Guide. Athens: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions 2023, 144 pp.
  8. M. Heidegger, Being and Time (translation in Greek). 2024.
Edited volumes [in Greek]
  1. Journal Hypomnema, vol. 5: “Heidegger’s philosophy” (2006).
  2. Journal Philosophical Reviews (co-editor of 6 vols: 2009-14).
  3. Co-editor (together with S. Efthymiadis and C. Panayides) of the volume Readings of Aristotle. Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press 2014, 154 pp.
  4. Co-editor (together with V. Kalfas, S. Rangos and G. Zografidis) of the electronic lexicon Plato’s Encyclopedia (member of the Editorial Board, responsible for the lemmata on Plato’s modern reception).
    http://atlantida.academia.gr/lyceum/?p=home&lang=2, 2015.
Articles in International Journals and Collected Volumes
  1. “From The Prehistory of Logos: Parmenidean Being as μόνον λεγόμενον”. The Philosophy of Logos (ed. K. Boudouris). Athens 1996, vol. II, 205-15.
  2. “Art as Ontology. Heidegger on the Origin of the Work of Art. Greek Philosophy and The Fine Arts (ed. K. Boudouris). Athens 2000, vol. ΙΙ, 181-90.
  3. “Platons letzte Schriftkritik”. Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 27 (2002), 95-110.
  4. “Logos and Forms in Phaedo 96a-102a”. Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 8 (2003), 1-19.
  5. “From Circular Facticity to Hermeneutic Tidings: Heidegger’s Contribution to Hermeneutics”. Journal of Philosophical Research 29 (2004), 47-71.
  6. “’Mythologie de la Raison’. Un manifeste hégélien de jeunesse”. Methodos 5 (2005),
    http://methodos.revues.org/document341.html.
  7. “Doxa revisitata”. Frühgriechisches Denken (ed. G. Rechenauer). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005, 270-89.
  8. “Beyond Legislation, Close to Philosophy. Plato’s Last Critique of Writing in the Laws. Philosophical Inquiry 27 (2005), 45-56.
  9. “How Many Doxai Are There in Parmenides?”. Rhizai 3 (2006), 199-218.
  10. “The Ontological Difference in Parmenides”. Philosophical Inquiry 30 (2008), 23-37.
  11. “Hegel’s Hermeneutics of History”. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 91 (2009), 70-94.
  12. “Rhetorik der Alltäglichkeit”. Heidegger über Rhetorik (ed. J. Kopperschmidt). Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2009, 245-72.
    – Spanish translation: “Retórica de la cotidianidad”. Aristóteles y la fenomenología del siglo XX (ed. Á. Xolocotzi Yáñez, R. Gibu Shimabukuro & J. Orejarena Torres). Buenos Aires: Biblos 2021.
  13. “Parmenidean Dualisms”. “Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome” (ed. N.-L. Cordero). Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing 2011, 289-308.
  14. “Phronesis vs. Sophia: On Heidegger’s Ambivalent Aristotelianism”. The Review of Metaphysics 66 (2012), 31-59.
  15. “Sollen und Zeit. Überlegungen zum kairos. Glück, Tugend, Zeit. Aristoteles über die Zeitstruktur des guten Lebens (ed. W. Mesch). Stuttgart: Metzler 2013, 79-94.
  16. “Vom Nutzen der Historie. Hegels Auflösung des historischen Didaktizismus”. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 71 (2017), 515-35.
  17. What kind of death? The Phaedo’s double topic”. Rhizomata 5 (2017), 113-47.
  18. “Varianten des Dezisionismus: Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Carl Schmitt und Panajotis Kondylis”. Deutschland und Griechenland im Spiegel der Philosophiegeschichte. Transfers im 20. Jahrhundert (ed. J. Pissis & D. Karydas). Berlin: Edition Romiosini/CeMoG 2018, 213‐226.
  19. “Heraklit. Eine Ontologie des Politischen”. Philosophie für die Polis (ed. C. Riedweg; “Beiträge zur Altertumskunde”). Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter 2019, 15-50.
  20. “Justice as Happiness: Republic and its Proems”. [Invited article for:] Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato (Brill’s Plato Studies Series, vol. 6; eds. E. Kaklamanou, M. Pavlou & A. Tsakmakis). Leiden: Brill 2020, 107-139.
  21. “Ontology and Doxa. On Parmenides’ Dual Strategies”. [Invited article for:] Eleatic Ontology: Origin and Reception, vol. 1: Eleatic ontology in ancient philosophy (eds. N. Galgano & R. Cherubin). Anais de Filosofia Classica 28 (2020), 216-249.
    https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/FilosofiaClassica/article/download/38766/23356
  22. “Existenzphilosophie und Hermeneutik im 20. Jahrhundert”. Aristoteles-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung (ed. C. Rapp & K. Corcilius). Stuttgart: Metzler 22021, 530-535.
  23. “Gadamer and Aristotle: Problems of a hermeneutic appropriation”. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53 (2022), 335-351.
  24. “Parmenides in Freiburg. Varieties of the question of Being”. Heidegger and Parmenides. London: Rowman & Littlefield 2024
Critical Articles in International Journals
  1. “H. Boeder, Das Bauzeug der Geschichte. Aufsätze und Vorträge zur griechischen und mittelalterlichen Philosophie. Philosophische Rundschau 43 (1996), 174-80.
  2. “Der Beginn der Aletheia” [review of J. Wiesner, Der Beginn der Aletheia. Untersuchungen zu B2-B3-B6]. Philosophische Rundschau 45 (1998), 163-70.
  3. “Recht und Physis” [review of K.F. Hoffmann, Das Recht im Denken der Sophistik]. Philosophische Rundschau 47 (2000), 155-60.
  4. “A.P.D. Mourelatos, The Route of Parmenides. Revised and expanded edition. Ordia Prima 8/9 (2009/10), 301-6.
  5. “J. Palmer, Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy. Gnomon 83 (2011), 673-8.
  6. “Hegel ohne Ballast. Geschichtsphilosophie in neuen Lektüren”. Philosophische Rundschau 63 (2016), 207-23.
  7. “H. Vetter, Parmenides: Sein und Welt. Gymnasium 124 (2017), 373-5.
Articles in Greek
  1. “Understanding or undermining? An inconclusive dialogue on theory and praxis”. Greek Philosophical Review 14 (1997), 256-71.
  2. Phaedo 96a-102a: A Philosophical Autobiography”. Deucalion 17 (1999), 5-22.
  3. “The culmination of Pre-Socratic Philosophy”. Greek Philosophy from Antiquity to the 20th Century (ed. S. Virvidakis et al.). Patras: Greek Open University 2000, 55-76
  4. “Heidegger and Hermeneutics”. Indiktos 15 (2001), 137-76.
  5. “Νομοθεσίας ἐκτὸς βαίνειν. Law and Philosophy in Plato’s Laws”. Isopoliteia 5 (2001), 67-93.
    Reprint in: Essays in Honor of D. Andriopoulos (ed. G. Arabatzis & A. Marinopoulou). Athens: Papadimas 2007, 134-58.
  6. “G.W.F. Hegel: ‘Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus’” – Presentation, Translation in Modern Greek, Commentary. Deucalion 22 (2004), 65-94.
  7. “Introduction” to the volume on “Heidegger’s philosophy”. Hypomnema 5 (2006), 7-18.
  8. “Heidegger: Being, Time, and History”. Texts on Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (ed. B. Kaldis). Patras: Greek Open University 2008, 203-12.
  9. “Three Hegelian Translations. A Critical Juxtaposition”. Hypomnema 8 (2009), 261-315.
  10. “The History of Metaphysical Oblivion of Being and the Destruktion” – Introduction to: M. Heidegger, Logos, Moira, Aletheia. Athens: Plethron 2009, 9-24.
  11. “Heidegger and Aristotle’s Rhetoric”. Memorial Volume for I. Koutsakos. Nicosia: Educational Society of Cyprus 2010, 81-97.
  12. “The Concept of kairos in the Nicomachean Ethics”. Readings of Aristotle (eds. S. Efthymiadis, C. Panayides & P. Thanassas). Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press 2014, 36-50.
  13. “Jaeger and the Pre-Socratics: The Case of Parmenides”. W. Jaeger: Classical Εducation and Christianity in the Work of a Humanist of the 20th Century (Hellenika – special edition). 2021.
Reviews in Greek
  1. “Hegel as Kant and as Bachelard” [review of G. Faraklas, Epistemology and Method in Hegel]. Deucalion 20 (2002), 117-134.
  2. “Routes of Parmenides” [review of A.P.D. Mourelatos, The Route of Parmenides. A Study of Word, Image and Argu­ment in the Fragments and of E. Roussos, Pre-Socratics, Vol. 3: Parmenides]. Nea Hestia, no. 1759 (September 2003), 330-3.
  3. “P. Kontos: Aristotle’s Moral Realism Reconsidered. Phenomenological Ethics”. Critica 2013-08, http://www.philosophica.gr/critica/2013-08.html.
  4. “M. Bartsides (ed.), Trans-Subjectivity”. Critica 2015-08, http://www.philosophica.gr/critica/ 2015-08.html.
  5. “Polyanna in Miletus” [review of K. Papalexiou, Introduction to the Ontology of the Pre-Socratics]. The Books’ Journal 74, February 2017, 76-79.
Encyclopaedia Articles
  1. Article “Parmenides” in The Literary Encyclopedia:
    http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5789, 2009.
  2. “Heideggers philosophischer Philhellenismus”. Online-Compendium der Deutsch-Griechischen Verflechtungen. 2022.

–     Articles in the electronic lexicon Encyclopedia of Plato,
http://plato.ehw.gr/lyceum.html, 2015 [in Greek]:

  1. “Pre-Socratic Philosophers”.
  2. “Parmenides, Heraclitus und Plato”.
  3. Phaedo”.
  4. “Plato in Modern Philosophy”.
  5. “Kant, Neukantianism und Plato”.
  6. “German Idealism, Hegelian Dialektic und Plato”.
  7. “Nietzsche’s ‘Inverted Platonism’”.
  8. “Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics und Plato”.
  9. “Heidegger und Plato”.
  10. “The Tübingen School”.
  11. “Modern Editions of Plato”.

–    Articles in the Encyclopedia Aristotelistes, https://aristotelistes.cti.gr/welcome/index_en.html, 2023:

  1. “Kairos”.
  2. “The Renaissance Aristotelianism”.
  3. “Bekker’s Edition”.
  4. “Hegel’s Aristotelianism”.
  5. “Jaeger’s Developmental Interpretation”.
  6. “Aristotle and Brentano”.
  7. “Aristotle and Heidegger”.
  8. “Aristotle and Gadamer”.
  9. “The Modern Aesthetics of Mimesis”.
  10. “The rehabilitation of Aristotelian Ethics in the 20th Century”.
  11. “Ritter’s Neoaristotelianism”.
  12. “Arendt’s Anti-Aristotelianism”.
  13. “Nussbaum on the ‘Fragility of Goodness’”.
  14. “The Aristotelianism of Contemporary Metaphysics”.
  15. “Mind – Body – Soul – Consciousness: Debates in the Shadow of Aristotle”.
  16. “The Revival of Rhetoric in the 20th Century”.
  17. “Contemporary Theories of Action”.
Translations in Greek
  1. G. Bien, “Contract and Republic. Kant’s Theory of the Modern Democratic Constitutional State”. The Human Face of Democracy (ed. D. Papadis). Athens: Papadimas 2000, 137-60.
  2. R. Bubner, “On Gadamer’s Hermeneutics”. Indiktos 15 (2001), 177-88.
  3. J. Simon, “Aristotle and Kant as Opposite Poles in European Philosophy”. Hypomnema 2 (2004), 27-41.
  4. M. Heidegger, “The Origin of Art and the Assignment of Thinking”. Hypomnema 5 (2006), 19-32.
  5. A. Nehamas, “The Phaedrus”. Virtues of Authenticity. Heraclion: Crete University Press 2020.
  6. Scientific review of the translation of: Ch. Rapp, Introduction to Aristotle. Athens: Okto 2012, 206 pp.
Collective publications
  1. Alysandratos, Ι.; Balla, D.; Konstantinidi, D.; Thanassas, P.: “Aristotle’s Wondering Children”. Politeia 1 (2019), 68-81.
  2. Pantoulias, M.; Vergouli, V.; Thanassas, P.: “Truth in practical reason. Practical and assertoric truth in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”. Peitho. Examina Antiqua 12 (2021).
Other publications [in Greek]
  1. “Carl Schmitt: A Contemporary Romantic”. Politis 88 (May 2001), 29-31.
  2. Introduction (“Being and Colour”) and Translation of the Fragments, in: J. Psychopedis, Δώματα Νυκτός. A visual journey in the poem of Parmenides. Athens: Olkos 2002.
  3. “A Platonic Comedy” [review of Plato’s “Ion”, Introduction: P. Kalligas, Translation: N. Skouteropoulos]. Vima tis Kyriakis, 6/10/2002.
  4. “Lack of Historical Sensitivity” [review of D. Papadis, The Political Philosophy of Aristotle]. Eleftherotypia, 1/11/2002.
  5. “A Philosophical Introduction to Philosophy” [review of N. Avgelis, Introduction to Philosophy]. Eleftherotypia, 9/9/2005.
  6. “A ‘Paradigm’ of Collective Philosophical Work” [review of K. Ierodiakonou (ed.), The Use of Paradigms in Philosophy]. Eleftherotypia, 26/1/2007.
  7. “Philosophical Library: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”. Cogito 6 (2007), 120-2.
  8. “History as Spirit and as Oblivion. Elements of a Modern Greek Self-examination”. The Future of the Humanities in Greece (ed. D. Moustaklidou). Thessaloniki: University Studio Press 2008, 77-86.
  9. “Guidelines on Writing an Academic Philosophical Paper”.
    http://www.thanassas.gr/ergasia.pdf, 2009.
  10. “Living and Dying as a Country”. The Books’ Journal 15, January 2012, 50-4.
  11. “Ancient Philosophy and Modern Education”. Classical Studies in Secondary Education (ed. Polyviou & A. Skouroumouni). Nicosia: Cyprus Pedagogical Institute 2018, 87-93.
  12. “Death as Possibility”. Kathimerini, 27,28/10/2018.
  13. “At the Origins of Logos: Parmenides and Heraclitus”. Synapsis 64 (2022), 22-26.
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