Assistant Professor
Dr. Panagiotis Poulos is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). He studied Philosophy and Formal Logic in Paris, and then worked on a Ph.D. thesis on the following subject: “Literature and Philosophy: the status of temporality in the construction of Marcel Proust’s oeuvre”. He worked as a tutor in the Department of Philosophy, Mathematics and History of Art of Paris-X-Nanterre University, and then taught literary translation in the Center of Literary Translation (CTL) of the French Institute of Athens, as well as in the European Center of Translation and Humanities (EKEMEL), of which he was one of the founding members.
He has lectured on the History of European Philosophy and the History of Aesthetics in the University of Crete, in the Greek Open University of Patras and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and he teaches, since 2004, introductory as well as advanced courses related to Aesthetics and Its History, Philosophy, Literature and the Visual Arts, Art Theory and Criticism, to a mixed audience of students from the two Departments of ASFA (artistically- and theoretically-oriented), in a undergraduate as well as a postgraduate level. He has also presided the Steering Comity for the ASFA Library from 2007 till the present.
Under his editorship, is being published the first complete Greek edition of Marcel Proust’s seven-volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu: 6 volumes have been published so far, the last one (Le Temps retrouvé) remaining to be published within the next nine months. Under his editorship have also been published in Greek an inter-disciplinary collective volume On the Notion of Construction, a Reader pertaining to Aesthetics and Art Theory entitled Twentieth-Century Concepts of Art, J.-P. Cometti’s, Roger Pouivet’s and Jacques Morizot’s Questions d’esthétique, Eric Karpeles’s Paintings in Proust, as well as Richard Wollheim’s Art and its objects, with annotations and a Postface. He has also co-edited a special issue of Rue Descartes, a journal of the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris), regarding Modern Greek Philosophical Thought.
He has published many articles in scientific and literary journals (Εντευκτήριο, Το δέντρο, τοπικά, Μετάφραση, Σύγχρονα Θέματα, Αξιολογικά, Ο Πολίτης), articles pertaining to Aesthetics, the relations between Philosophy, Art and Literature, the theory of Translation; his main work in translation being Marcel Proust’s La Prisonnière and Albertine disparue, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s Empirisme et subjectivité. Essai sur la nature humaine selon Hume. A study entitled Proust and the Deep-Learning of Art is actually being completed, while a project entitled The Norms of Art is being sketched.
His main research interests are related to Aesthetics, Poetics, Art Theory and the Philosophy of History, as well as to the conceptual questions raised by the poetics of memory, the temporality of the creative process, and the dimension of translatability. For his contributions in the realms of teaching, research, translation and philosophy, the French Republic has accorded him in February 2015 the distinction of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
