Eftichis Pirovolakis, Assistant Professor
Dr Eftichis Pirovolakis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Peloponnese. Since 2001, he has taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton in the UK, and the Universities of Patras, Crete, Western Macedonia and the Hellenic Open University in Greece. He works on twentieth-century continental philosophy and, more specifically, on the relation between hermeneutics, deconstruction and phenomenology. Thematically, his teaching and research focus on the relation between ethics, politics and aesthetics, and, more recently, on the complex encounter of philosophy with drama and tragedy, in particular.
Pirovolakis is the author of Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics (SUNY Press, 2010). He has published articles in international journals such as, among others, Philosophy Today, Word and Text and Literature, Interpretation, Theory. He has served as assistant editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain for several years, and has recently co-edited, with Dorothea Olkowski, Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom (Routledge, 2019), which has just been published. His Greek translation of Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington’s influential work titled Derrida (Seuil, 2008), completed jointly with Apostolos Lambropoulos, is forthcoming in 2019 by Nissos Publications.
