Angeliki Papathanasiou
Εmail: angelipapath@uoc.gr
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Monday: 16:30-17:30
Tuesday: 11:30-13:30
Angeliki Papathanasiou is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Crete. She received her BA, MA, and PhD in Political Science from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, where she completed her doctoral dissertation in Political Theory in 2015. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research—conducted at the Department of Sociology of the University of Crete—was supported by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).
From 2020 to 2023 she taught Political and Social Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Crete. She is also a member of the editorial team of the journal Axiologika.
Her research and teaching focus on political and social theory, particularly the intellectual traditions of modern natural law and the Enlightenment, as well as central questions in Marxian and Marxist thought, structuralism, post-structuralism, and critical theory. Her work engages with major figures and debates in modern political thought, including the critique of political economy, theories of authority and subjectivity, and the historical formation of modern political concepts.
- Political Theory
- Social Theory
- Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
- Natural Law
- Marxian and Marxist Theory
- Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
- Critical Theory
- ΠΘΑΠ152 – Political Theory A: Classical Approaches
- ΣΡΣΠ642 – Conservative and Radical Thought (18th–19th Century)
Selected Publications
Monographs
Reason, Sovereignty and Property in the Thought of Thomas Paine. Mati Publications, Katerini, 2024.
The Marx of Critique: Life and Discipline in the Capitalist Productive Norm. Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation, Athens, 2016.
Selected Articles
“Authority, Ideology and the Subject: Louis Althusser with and against Erich Fromm,” Historical Materialism(forthcoming).
“The Marxian Critique of Rights in the Horizon of Bourgeois Democracy,” in Transformations of Democracy: A Tribute to Manolis Angelidis, Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation (forthcoming).
“Natural Law and the Critique of Property in Thomas Spence,” Krisis (forthcoming).
“Authority and Subjectivity in the Early Work of Erich Fromm,” Axiologika 35 (forthcoming).
“Authority, Hierarchy and Irrationalism: The Critique of the Capitalist and the Free Form of Cooperation in the Mature Work of Karl Marx,” Axiologika 33 (Spring 2023): 29–44.
“Sketching the Political Subject of Modernity: Niccolò Machiavelli after Michel Foucault,” in Machiavelli after Machiavelli, eds. H. Avlami et al., Novus, Athens, 2022.
“Michel Foucault and the Marxian Critique of Political Economy,” Utopia 128 (2019): 129–149.
