Field: | Philosophy of History |
Rank: | Associate Professor |
Government Gazette: | 29/19-1-2022, τ.Γ' |
Telephone: | +30 2661087342 |
Fax: | 2661035197 |
Email: | fvaki@ionio.gr |
Fotini Vaki is Associate Professor of the History of Philosophy in the Department of History at Ionian University. She graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Education, and Psychology at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. She received her master’s degree in Continental Philosophy and her Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Essex. (Ph.D. Thesis title: Marx and Habermas on the paradigm of production: Towards a re-interpretation of the normative foundations of critical theory). She taught modern and contemporary Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras (2003-4), the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies at the University of Crete (2004-5), and at the Hellenic Open University (2003-2011). In 2011-12 she was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. She is the author of the monographs, Progress in the Enlightenment: Faces and Facets (Athens, Eurasia, 2012) and Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Rights (Athens, Eurasia, 2021). Her papers have been published in Greek and international journals and collective volumes. Her research interests focus on the areas of modern and contemporary political and moral philosophy, and in particular, European Enlightenment, and Critical Theory. In the elections of January and September 2015, she was elected as an MP for Corfu. She was an MP and parliamentary representative from 2015 to 2019.