Alexandros Theodorides
Email: atheodor@psed.duth.gr

Alexandros Theodoridis is Associate Professor in Philosophical Anthropology & Education at the Democritus University of Thrace. His research and publications revolve around the following areas: Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Education, Political Philosophy, Political-moral-aesthetic education, Philosophy of the environment, Environmental ethics, Professional ethics and Intercultural ethics. He participates in research projects and he is a member of societies in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. In addition, he is an associated researcher in the Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph., Greece, University of the Aegean). He is the Director of the Postgraduate Program «Education for the Environment and Sustainability». Indicative publications: «Social imaginary meanings and the question of the institution of society», in: Despotopoulos, K., D. (intr.), Psyche, Logos, Polis. Tribute to Cornelius Castoriadis, Athens: Ypsilon/books, 2007, pp. 175-191 [in Greek]/ «The ethos of mortality as the foundation of democratic education», in: Boudouris, K. & Knežević, M. (eds.), Paideia: Education in the Global Era, vol. I, Athens: Ionia Publication, 2008, pp. 238-249/ «The retreat of the individual into private life, the decline of public life and the role of education», Phronimon, vol. 9 (2), 2008, pp. 49-63/ «The liberating power of art and the ascendance of nihilistic education», in: Theodoropoulou, E. (ed., trans., intr.), Philosophy of Education: discourses, aspects, journeys, Athens: Pedio, 2010, pp. 159-184 [in Greek]/ «The scars suffered by democracy in the name of ‘democracy’: Democratic education in name only and the re-emerging face of totalitarianism in the contemporary western world», Skepsis, vol. XII (IV), 2012, pp. 125-134 / «The contribution of Castoriadean thought to the understanding of mortality and the question of the individualisation of the human being», Papyri – Scientific Journal, vol. 4, 2015, pp. 113-126/ «The Radical Character of Art and the Pedagogical and Political Value of the ‘Sublime’ in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory», Philosophy Study, vol. 6 (1), 2016, pp. 1-18/ «The ethos of the teacher as a critical thinker», Epistrophe. International Journal of Professional Ethics in Philosophy and Education. Studies and Practices [EPREPE] of the «Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy» (L.R.P.Ph.), vol. III, 2019-2020, Rhodes: L.R.P.Ph., 2020, pp. 168-193.