• “Art and Power: “Das Unbehagen in der Kultur?,
• “The usurpation of forms: the political discourse of neoclacissism”,
• “The rhetoric of ruins”,
• “Allusive Portraits, The imperceptible depiction of authority”,
• “La forme classique à l’âge de l’instrumentalisation du beau”,
• “Approche systémique et processus politique”,
• “Political Communication”
• “Recent trends of the parties by-play”,
• “Prolegomena to the political discourse”
• “Rhetorical Haughtiness and the Need for Self-assurance: An Analysis of Greek Student Responses” (with an Appendix: Youth and History Student Questionnaire), Prolegomena to the discourse of political discourse”,
• “They met: an exotic discussion on politics”,
• “The Septinsular Republic 1803”,
• “The limits of the terms: An essay on the semiotic release of political life”,
• “Political Science: an interdisciplinary and contemporary analysis of the political action (an edited ten volume series)”
• “De l’ Europe: se relégitimer pour acter”
• “Skylights”
• “Demos and Nomos in Aristotle’s Constitution of Athens in Honorary volume of Prokopis Pavlopoulos”

Under preparation:

• “The invisible textbook” (2024)
• “The spatio-temporal exoticism of Cavafian poetry” (2025)
• “The fourth poetic collection” (2025)
• “The political interpellation of Art” (2026)

THE LOGIC BY ITSELF

Sometimes you think

how a theory, in order to be respected,

you’ll have to endow it with a strong logic,

so that it will not be unsettled…

But a theory that holds up

can, and only by the logic’s incredible power,

not to let life run free.

Logic, by itself,

has not some kind of ethos.

And this is an incredible trap,

if you leave it alone to dictate

and you follow it.

(extract from: “Skylights”)

The rhetoric of the ruins

The view of the ruins, elliptical itself, seems to outline what now, as intact, does not exist. But the rhetorical efficiency of their image-for this very reason-may be more suggestive. Each ruin unwittingly “idealizes” an art form, and in this function, it then participates in the aestheticization not only of the “then” time, but also of the “present” time. This is even further reinforced when, later, ruin and space are ‘co-painted’ or ‘co-photographed’ in relation to a certain place, or consists of, as a unified whole, a literary or musical-theatrical work (anticipating the…Wagnerian conception!). Within this Gesamtkunstwerk, ruins and sites are “sacralized” (in this technical sense of the term) and thus now are artistically protected from any questioning. Not infrequently, therefore, the specific sites are thus also catapulted, transformed into historical landscapes or symbolic compositions, so that the idealized “things” are the perpetuation not only of one aspect but of a view, a scenic or musical memory. In this sense, the ruin participates in the aestheticization of history as an innocent image. The influence of the image, not just of the ruin, but of the ruinous rendering of reality as a sense, for example, of a fuzzy nature, finds, perhaps, in painting one of its most subtle fields of application.

Under publication in French

The usurpation of the forms

The established things of the world, or those still considered as such, bring with them glory and honor. A prestige unassailable accompanies them and they are preserved intact in our consciousness.

But they provoke the admiration of the “foreigners”, and give rise to profane ideas in their minds. And now they want to present them, in order to make them appear as their own works.

Usurped from their own places and times, dragged out of their nobility, the monuments are now parallaxed, projecting them with other intentions.

For other different purposes they set them up again, and from their style they keep only what they can soothe their arms.

Under publication in French

• Vice-président de l’Académie Européenne Interdisciplinaire des Sciences (2019)
• Athens Academy Poetry Prize (2023)
• President of the ‘Académie Ionienne 1808’ (2022)
• Grand Cross of the Ancient Patriarchal Order of Sabbas the Consecrated
• Award of the Greek Grand Mission of the Soldiers and the Hospital Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem
• Award of The Hellenic Society of Political Science (2018)
• Honorary Professor and Professor Emeritus of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2022)
• Membre titulaire de l’Académie Européenne Interdisciplinaire des Sciences
• (Fondation de la Maison de l’Homme) (2014)
• Honorary Professor, University of Budapest (ΕLTE) (2016)
• Honorary Professor, University of Peloponnese (2012)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Budapest (ΕLTE) (2016)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Crete (2010)
• Member of the Hellenic Personal Data Protection High Authority (2008-2016)
• Member of the National Commission on Human Rights (2008-2016)