CURRICULUM VITAE
RAYMOND PETRIDIS
NEW YORK /ATHENS
2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
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DATE OF BIRTH
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PETRIDIS – TZOMBANOS
RAYMOND – PAUL
22ND MAY 1974
LONDON
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
24.5.2013
PhD in Philosophy – New School University, N.Y. (New
School for Social Research).
2005-2013
PhD studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences [Dean’s
Fellow, GPA: 3.80/4.0, PhD comprehensive exams:
High-Passed with Honors]
Dissertation Title: Kondylis and the Problem of Nihilism
(printed by The University of Michigan, ProQuest 2013)
Doctoral Committee:
Jay M. Bernstein (New School for Social Research,N.Y.)
-supervisorGary Ulmen (Columbia University, N.Y.)
Andreas Kalyvas (New School for Social Research,N.Y.)
28.9.2004
MPhil. – New School University, N.Y. [entrance to the
PhD Program]
2002-2004
MPhil en route to PhD in Philosophy and Social Sciences
– New School University, N.Y.
5.4.2001
MA in Continental Philosophy – University of Essex,
UK.
1999-2000
MA studies in Continental Philosophy – Univ. of Essex,
U.K.
MA Thesis Title: Nietzsche’s Concept of Freedom
(supervisor: Espen Hammer)
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15.12.1998
BA (‘Ptychion’) in Theology – National Capodistrian
University of Athens, Greece.
1994-1998
BA studies in Theology (4 years) – National Capodistrian
University of Athens, Greece.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Ethics; Continental Philosophy; Decision Theory; Ancient Philosophy
(Nietzsche & Kondylis scholar; special strengths in the reading of Plato,
Freud, Hegel, Heidegger)
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides); Philosophy and
Tragedy; Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes,
Machiavelli); German Idealism (esp. Kant & Hegel) and ‘Romanticism’;
Topics in Freudian and Post-Freudian Thought (particular emphasis on
‘primary narcissism’ and fetishism); Topics in Classical Sociology (esp.
Marx, Max Weber, Durkheim, Pareto, Raymond Aron); Topics in Medieval
Thought (esp. Nicolaus Cusanus & Aquinas), 20th century Continental
Thought; Modern Greek Philosophy and Poetry.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Kondylis, Nietzsche, Hegel, Greek Tragedy, Marx, Max Weber, Durkheim,
Clausewitz, Dostoevsky, psychoanalytic theories of primary narcissism (esp.
Hans Loewald, H. Kohut) and fetishism, Axel Honneth, Paul Ricoeur, Jay
Bernstein, anthropology of A. Brittan.
LANGUAGES
Greek : Native speaker
English : Fluent
French : Reading: excellent, speaking: good, writing: fair
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German: elementary knowledge
Ancient Greek & Latin: reading fluency
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
2012- 2013
New School University scholarship for the completion of
an archive research (P. Kondylis Archive) associated to
the completion of the Doctoral Dissertation: 2012-2013.
2009-2012
Scholarship from the Moraitis Legacy of the University
of Athens (for having the best grade in the University’s
Theology exams).
2002-2005
National merit scholarship from the Greek State
Scholarships Foundation [I.K.Y] (awarded to students
who have the three best grades in the Panhellenic
philosophy exams).
2002-2005
Tuition Scholarships from the New School University
2005
Teaching Fellowship & Dean’s fellowship from the New
School University (Fall and Spring)
2005
Grant from the Ahepa Educational Foundation.
1999-2000&
2002-2004
Scholarship from The A.G. Leventis Foundation
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of the following courses:
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Spring 2005: “Nietzsche and Freud”, Eugene Lang College, New
School University, New York. (LPHI 3513 A)
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Fall 2005: “Introduction to Ancient Greek Philosophy I”, Eugene
Lang College, New School University, N.Y (LPHI 2010 A).
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Spring 2009: “Ancient Greek Ethical & Political Thought”, College
Year in Athens (P354 & P454)
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(class syllabi and students’ evaluation forms for the aforementioned courses
available upon request)
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Attended a series of Pedagogic Seminars for New School University
Teaching Fellows at Eugene Lang College, N.Y. as a preparation for
academic teaching (Fall 2004).
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Lessons to high school students, undergraduate and graduate students
during the years 2000-2002 (in Greece), 2003-2006 (in the U.S.).
PUBLICATIONS
a) Books:
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Hegel & Kondylis. The Hegelian Genealogy of Dualism, the Bonds of
the Unhappy Consciousness and the Kondylean Enlightened Stoicism.
(in Greek), Eurasia Publications, Athens, 2011 [142 pages].
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Kondylis and the Problem of Nihilism – to be published (2014) in
English & Greek (Eurasia Publications certification available upon
request)
[324
pages]
abstract:
http://gradworks.umi.com/35/66/3566464.html
b) Articles:
- ‘The Philosophical Importance of Tragedy in Nietzsche’s Work’. An
Alternative Reading of Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy with Critical
Remarks in the Light of the Kondylean Worldview: Journal of Nea
Hestia (in Greek) Vol. 163, Issue 1810, April 2008, pp. 722-741.
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- ‘‘Power’ and ‘Authority’ in Kondylis’ Late Work’ (to be published issue 11, Spring 2014) in the Greek Journal Neos Hermis o Logios
(Publisher’s certification available upon request).
- ‘Hegel’s ‘Modern Antigone’ under the Light of a Kondylean Socioontological Premise’ (work in progress).
- ‘The Constitution of the World-Image: From the ‘Preliminary’ to the
‘Settled World’’ (work in progress).
c) Translations in English:
- P. Kondylis, ‘“Human Rights”: Conceptual Confusion and Political
Exploitation’ Telos Press, N.Y. Critical of the Contemporary, no. 166,
Spring 2014 pp. 161-165. (co-translated with Stephen Stafford)
- P. Kondylis, ‘Melancholy and Polemics’ (co-translated with Stephen
Stafford) - currently under editing.
The above translations are the first ones from a series of official
translations of the Kondylean corpus in English assigned by the
‘Freundeskreis Panajotis Kondylis e.V’.
COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH
In parallel with or in addition to the usually required courses on the history
of philosophy and the central figures of the philosophical canon, I am
prepared to also teach one or more of the following thematic courses:
Introductory courses:
-Ethics
-Aesthetics
-Human Nature
-Power, Authority, Violence
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-Philosophers and Power
-Philosophers and Pleasure
-Philosophers and Friendship
-Metaphysics or Nihilism?
Advanced Courses:
-The ‘Master-Slave Dialectic’ from Antiquity to Modern Times
-Normative and Descriptive Accounts of Recognition: Is ‘recognition’ a
moral or a pre-moral concept? (Hegel, Sartre, Buber, Ricoeur, Honneth,
Kondylis et al.)
-Philosophy of Dialogue: Advocates and Opponents
-Readings in Freud (esp. texts dealing with [primary] narcissism, fetishism,
sadism/masochism)
-Philosophical Conceptions of Greece (Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt,
Popper, Castoriadis, Kondylis et al.)
-Forms of Nihilism from Antiquity to the Present (Cyrenaics, La Mettrie,
Sade, Nietzsche, Kondylis et al.)
-Thucydides as Philosopher
-Dilthey, Nietzsche and Hegel
Graduate/Postgraduate Seminars:
- Theories of Mourning
- Forgiveness and Revenge (Hegel, Dostoevsky, Ricoeur, Jankelevitch,
Butler, Kristeva, J.M. Bernstein, Derrida et al.)
- Theological & Philosophical Skepticism
- The European Enlightenment and the Quest for ‘Independence’
- Philosophy and Tragedy
- Wittgenstein and Kondylis
- Philosophical and Psychological Theories of the Ego
- The Critique of Metaphysics in Modern Thought
- Theories of War (Clausewitz, Marx, Lenin et al.)
- From Power and Decision to The Political and Man (advanced readings in
Panajotis Kondylis).
CONFERENCE PAPERS
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20/10/2007
‘The Greek Character of Kondylis’ Work and its Role in
the Formation of his Philosophical Thesis’, University of
Yale, 20/10/2007, organized by the Modern Greek
Studies Association (MGSA).
5/6/2007
‘The Philosophical Importance of Tragedy in Nietzsche’s
Work’, 2nd International Conference in Philosophy
organized by the Athens Institute for Education and
Research (AT.IN.E.R.), Athens-Greece.
5/3/2014
(1st lecture)
2014 (expected)
‘Introduction to the Work of Panajotis Kondylis:
publishing activity, main ideas and their importance for
contemporary Greece’: Series of lectures given at The
War Museum, Athens, in the Institute for Life-long
Training seminar for Active Military Officers organized
by the Hellenic Military Academy.
‘The Notions of Power and Authority in Kondylis’
Unpublished Work’ (to be presented in the ‘Worksite of
Ideas’ organized by Eurasia Publications.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT THE NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY
SEMINARS
- “Freud’s Moses and Nietzsche’s Madman” (2003), in Prof. Agnes Heller’s
post-graduate seminar: Freud on Culture and Civilization”.
-“Moses and the Genealogy of Guilt” (2003), in Prof. Jay Bernstein’s postgraduate seminar: “Mourning and Metaphysics”.
-“Spinoza: Religion and the State in the ‘Theologico-Political
Treatise’”(2002), in Prof. Y. Yovel’s post-graduate seminar “Spinoza’s
Ethical and Political Thought”.
-“Nietzsche’s ‘Ecce Homo’” (2002), in Prof. A. Heller’s post-graduate
seminar “Nietzsche’s Late works”.
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-“Pleasure and Power: Plato’s Strategy” (2003), in Prof. Richard Bernstein
& Prof. Claudia Barrachi’s post-graduate seminar: “The Love of Plato”.
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC PAPERS
1 “Nietzsche’s account of Tragedy in The Birth of Tragedy” 2006.
2 “Cusanus’ notion of Learned Ignorance” 2006.
3 “The notion of individuals in the philosophy of William James and G.H.
Mead” 2006.
4 “Descartes' Hasty Metaphysics and its Relation to Mathesis Universalis”,
2005.
5 “S. Freud: ‘The Old and the New Deity’” [critical appraisal of Freud’s
The Future of an Illusion], 2004.
6 “The Light and the Dark Side of Husserl’s Vision” [critical reading of
Husserl’s Work The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental
Phenomenology], 2004.
7 “Protagoras’ Man-Measure Fragment” Fall 2004.
8 “Freud’s Moses and the Genealogy of Guilt” 2003.
9 “The Defense of the World-image and the Polemical Nature of
Melancholy”, 2003.
10 “Demythologizing Heidegger”, [critical appraisal of Heidegger’s Work
through the readings of Ernst Tugendhat, W. Richardson, K. Lowith, P.
Kondylis] 2003.
11 “Pleasure and Power: Plato’s Strategy”, 2003.
12 “The Idea of ‘Megalopsychia’ in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”, New
School University, 2003.
13 “The Spinozean Definition of Substance and its Role in the Critique of
Traditional Metaphysics”, 2002.
14 “Nietzsche’s ‘Ecce Homo’”, 2002.
15 “The Polemical Nature of Dialogue” [critical reading of the
‘dialogicalist’ positions of M. Bakhtin, M. Buber, M. Theunissen, Ch.
Taylor, D. Bohm, V. Hosle, M. Blanchot, K.O. Apel, H.G. Gadamer],
2002.
16 “‘Power and Decision in the Domain of the ‘Spirit’’: Martin Heidegger”
[P. Kondylis’ critique on Heidegger], 2002.
17 “Freud and the Genesis of Nihilism”, 2002.
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX ACADEMIC PAPERS
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18 “Nietzsche’s Concept of Freedom”, MA THESIS, University of Essex,
U.K. 2000.
19 “The Role of Anxiety in Martin Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’”, Univ. of
Essex, 2000.
20 “Nietzsche’s Notion of Freedom and the Thought of Eternal Return”
[critical appraisal of the Heideggerian reading of Nietzsche], Univ. of
Essex, 2000.
21 “‘God’ as an Epistemological Problem” [an assumption from the
perspective of ‘negative theology’] Univ. of Essex, 2000.
22 “The Strategy and the Success of Kant’s ‘Copernican Revolution’”,
Univ. of Essex, 1999.
23 “Nietzsche’s notion of ‘Free Spirit’”, Univ. of Essex, 1999.
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS ACADEMIC PAPERS
24 “Taoism and its Fundamental Philosophical Principles”, University of
Athens, 1998.
25 “The Original Sin”, Univ. of Athens , 1997.
26 “The ‘Destiny Problem’ according to St. Gregory of Nyssa”, Univ. of
Athens, 1996.
PhD COURSES TAKEN AT THE NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY, N.Y.
Credit Courses:
Modern Deductive Logic (Dmitri Nikulin)
Mourning & Metaphysics (Jay M. Bernstein)
Love of Plato (Richard Bernstein & Claudia Barrachi)
Cartesian & Anti-Cartesian Meditations (Y.Yovel)
Spinoza: Politics and Critique of Philosophy (Y. Yovel)
Phenomenology & Political Philosophy (Bernard Flynn)
Nietzsche’s Late Works (Agnes Heller)
Philosophy of Immanence & the Rise of Modernity (Y.Yovel)
Advanced Readings in Freud (Alan Bass)
Freud on Culture & Civilization (Agnes Heller)
Husserl’s Crisis & Phenomenology (James Dodd)
Heidegger and the Greeks (Claudia Barrachi)
Philosophy of Dialogue (Dmitri Nikulin)
Being & the Unconscious (Alan Bass)
Audited courses -full time-:
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Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (Richard Bernstein)
Pragmatism (Mitchell Aboulafia)
Audited courses -part time-:
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit -one year course- (Jay M. Bernstein)
Ethics after Auschwitz (Jay Bernstein)
Sociology I (Jose Casanova)
Subjectivity and Normativity (Sebastian Rodl)
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Jay Bernstein)
Kant’s Critique of Judgment (Jay Bernstein)
Philosophy and Tragedy (Jay M. Bernstein)
MA COURSES TAKEN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Credit Courses:
Kant (Fiona Hughes)
Heidegger (Espen Hammer)
MA seminar in Continental Philosophy I (Simon Critchley)
MA seminar in Continental Philosophy II (Beatrice Han)
Joint seminar in Philosophy Sociology and Politics II (Beatrice Han)
Nietzsche (Fiona Hughes)
Audited Courses -part time-:
MA Seminar in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Peter Dews)
Hegel (Espen Hammer)
SELECTED BA COURSES AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF
ATHENS (ON CREDIT) AND THE METSOVION POLYTECHNION
& DEPT. OF METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THEORETICAL
SCIENCES (AUDIT)
Credit Courses:
Philosophy: From Myth to Reason (Constantine Papapetrou)
Encyclopaideia of Theology (Constantine Papapetrou)
Apologetics: The Death of God (Constantine Papapetrou)
Sociology (Nikolaos Tatsis)
Audited Courses –full time-:
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Seminar in the Philosophy of Science (Lacatus, Kuhn, Popper, Russell,
Wittgenstein) (Aristides Baltas)
Philosophy of Religion (Tasos Bougas)
Audited courses -part time-:
On Causality (Stathis Psyllos)
Philosophy (Christos Giannaras)
MEMBERSHIPS
-Member of the Athens Institute of Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.) in
the Philosophy and Education Research Units – reviewing papers for
publication and chairing international conference sessions.
- Member of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA).
- Member of the A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship Recipients’ Society.
ACTIVITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY
- Competed in the Athens University tennis and basketball tournaments
(1995-1998) and in the Essex University and New School University
basketball tournaments (1999-2000 & 2004-2005).
- American basketball tournament (‘3 on 3’) awarded a medal (1995).
GENERAL INTERESTS:
Reading : Philosophy, Poetry, Literature
Sports :
Basketball, tennis
Others :
Music, films, chess.
REFERENCES:
Jay M. Bernstein(New School for Social Research) bernstej@newschool.edu
Alan Bass (New School for Social Research) bassaj@aol.com
Andreas Kalyvas(NewSchool forSocial Research) kalyvasa@newschool.edu
Gary Ulmen (Columbia University) ulmen@nyc.rr.com
Phaedon Zodhiates (College Year in Athens) zodhiate@dikemes.edu.gr
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Vasilis Lambropoulos (University of Michigan) vlambrop@umich.edu
James Dodd (New School for Social Research) doddj@newschool.edu
Dmitri Nikulin (New School for Social Research) nikulinD@newschool.edu
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