FOTIS TERZAKIS. Independent writer and essayist.

Born 1959 in Patras, Greece, has studied cinema in Athens and participated in seminar-research on extended fields of Human Arts (philosophy, political psychology, psychanalysis, social anthropology and religious studies). Since 2005 he has founded the Centre of Transcultural Studies, where he teaches philosophy, comparative religion and aesthetics.

He has been involved in publications as editor of book-series on relevant fields, and has been regularly writing book-reviews in newspapers like Eleftherotypia, Kathimerini and Avgi.  

Working also as a translator, he has translated into Greek ––among other writers–– John Dewey, Rudolf Bultmann, Julius Evola, Mikhail Bakhtin, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Martin Jay, Susan Buck-Morss, Karen Armstrong, Regina M. Schwartz, Peter Kingsley, Robert Layton, Edward E. Said, Bruno Latour, Anthony Wilden, Ronald D. Laing, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Theodore Roszak and Stanislav Grof. 

Apart of numerous articles and critiques in various newspapers and magazines, he has published one personal book of poetry (The Blood of Language, Patras 1988) and the following books of essays: 

 

– Nature and Society. Genealogy of a Certain Type of Consciousness and a Domination Relationship (Athens, 1990)
[Now included in Fragments of a Philosophy of  Nature]

– Notes on Anthropology of Music (Athens, 1990)

– Liberalism and Terror. Political Writings, 1987-1991  (Athens, 1991)

– The Antipodes of ’60s: Behind the Ambiguous Notion of Postmodernism and Through the New Social Movements (Athens, 1992)

– The Ghost of a Decade. Civilization and Cultural Trends in the Decade of 1960 [ed. with S. Triantafillou] (Athens, 1994)

– Philosophical Reformism. Problems of Dialectics and Totality in the Philosophy and Political Theory of  Jürgen Habermas (Athens, 1996)

– Dialectics Redifined. A Contribution to the Investigation into the Philosophical and Anthropological Roots of a Certain Notion (Athens, 1996)

– Studies on the Sacred (Athens, 1997)

– Irrationalism, Fundamentalism, and Religious Revival: The Colours of the Chessboard (Athens, 1998), bilingual edition

– The Names of Dionysus. Announcements of a Constantly Frustrated Advent (Athens, 2000)

– The Ghost of the Nation and the Scaffold of the Market. Political Writings II, 1995-2001 (Athens, 2001)

– The Spirit in Exile. Papaioannou, Castoriades, Axelos (Athens, 2003)

– Death and Eschatological Visions. Religio-historical Perspectives [ed.] (Thessaloniki, 2003)

– Fragments of a Philosophy of  Nature (Athens, 2003)

– Nitzscheian Transformations. On the Reception of Nietzsche in the Era of Technological Capitalism (Athens, 2004)

– State of Emergency: Towards an Emergent Comprehension of the Current World. Political Writings III (Athens, 2005)

– Orbits of the Aesthetic. The Historical Formation of an Aesthetic Philosophy and Its Anthropological Horizon (Athens, 2007)

– Interpretative Essays on the Frankfurt School (Athens, 2009)

– Crisis and Ideologies at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Political Writings IV (Athens, 2009)