Evy Varsamopoulou
Biographic Data
| ID | 295072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evy Varsamopoulou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evy |
| FAMILY NAME | Varsamopoulou |
| SIGNATURE | VARSAMOPOULOU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5616-6021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In search of the social
This article puts forward a historical and philosophical critique of the concept of toleration that questions it as an ultimate achievement and instead interrogates its limitations and seeks ways in which it may point to its own supercession in more positive and durable social bonds. The violence which toleration historically aimed at containing remains a constant in present-day recourses to its relevancy, while the negative valuations of human i…
Timely Meditations
What may be the relevance of the European tradition of the humanities and of humanism today? In his novels, Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year, the South-African writer, academic, and current resident of Australia, J.M. Coetzee, both enriches and puts into question the European traditions that have shaped scholarship, literary writers and academic professions in the humanities. His characters’ meditations on the value of literature, human…
The Fate of the Humanities, the Fate of the University
The aim of this article is to analyze the current crisis of higher education and to propose a new model to counter the threat this crisis poses to the arts and humanities. The crisis of the university is presented through a comparison with two earlier crises: the first occurring in the seventeenth century and the second in the early nineteenth century. I argue that as an institution and a culture the mission of the university is to uphold the val…
Reflections on the Future University
The Idea of Europe and the Ideal of Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Julia Kristeva
This article puts forward a critical investigation and comparative assessment of Julia Kristeva's political writing on Europe and cosmopolitanism. Kristeva's reflections on the status of the stranger in the European religious and secular traditions, and her persistent argument on the need to constructively reformulate what is most conducive to a present and future cosmopolitanism from within those traditions and discourses, have already been reco…
Three Movements of Life
This article offers a critical presentation of Jan Patočka's philosophy by focusing mainly on his lecture series published as Body, Community, Language, World, where he outlined his phenomenological project of re-instating the body in philosophy. Taking the body and its invariable situatedness as a starting point and identifying useful precursors in European philosophy, Patočka delineates three movements of human life: an affective movement consi…
The crisis of masculinity and action in the sound and the fury
(1998). The crisis of masculinity and action in the sound and the fury: Quentin compson's modernist Oedipus. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 132-143
The Idea of Europe and the Ideal of Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Julia Kristeva
This article puts forward a critical investigation and comparative assessment of Julia Kristeva's political writing on Europe and cosmopolitanism. Kristeva's reflections on the status of the stranger in the European religious and secular traditions, and her persistent argument on the need to constructively reformulate what is most conducive to a present and future cosmopolitanism from within those traditions and discourses, have already been reco…
The crisis of masculinity and action in the sound and the fury
(1998). The crisis of masculinity and action in the sound and the fury: Quentin compson's modernist Oedipus. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 132-143
Three Movements of Life
This article offers a critical presentation of Jan Patočka's philosophy by focusing mainly on his lecture series published as Body, Community, Language, World, where he outlined his phenomenological project of re-instating the body in philosophy. Taking the body and its invariable situatedness as a starting point and identifying useful precursors in European philosophy, Patočka delineates three movements of human life: an affective movement consi…
The Idea of Europe and the Ideal of Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Julia Kristeva
This article puts forward a critical investigation and comparative assessment of Julia Kristeva's political writing on Europe and cosmopolitanism. Kristeva's reflections on the status of the stranger in the European religious and secular traditions, and her persistent argument on the need to constructively reformulate what is most conducive to a present and future cosmopolitanism from within those traditions and discourses, have already been reco…
The Fate of the Humanities, the Fate of the University
The aim of this article is to analyze the current crisis of higher education and to propose a new model to counter the threat this crisis poses to the arts and humanities. The crisis of the university is presented through a comparison with two earlier crises: the first occurring in the seventeenth century and the second in the early nineteenth century. I argue that as an institution and a culture the mission of the university is to uphold the val…
Reflections on the Future University
Timely Meditations
What may be the relevance of the European tradition of the humanities and of humanism today? In his novels, Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year, the South-African writer, academic, and current resident of Australia, J.M. Coetzee, both enriches and puts into question the European traditions that have shaped scholarship, literary writers and academic professions in the humanities. His characters’ meditations on the value of literature, human…
In search of the social
This article puts forward a historical and philosophical critique of the concept of toleration that questions it as an ultimate achievement and instead interrogates its limitations and seeks ways in which it may point to its own supercession in more positive and durable social bonds. The violence which toleration historically aimed at containing remains a constant in present-day recourses to its relevancy, while the negative valuations of human i…
Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)