Stavros Panayiotu

Stavros Panayiotou is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Continental Philosophy (esp. Levinas), Ethics and Byzantine Philosophy. He has a PhD in Continental Philosophy, an MPhil in Analytic Philosophy and an MA in Religious Studies and Late Antiquity. He is in parallel a co-organizer of the "Athens Colloquium on Kant and German Idealism", Department of Philosophy, Athens University. He has presented papers in several conferences and published a variety of articles in Continental Philosophy, Ethics, and Arab-Byzantine History and Philosophy. His recent publications include, among others, “Otherness precedes Asceticism: Emmanuel Levinas’s Criticism on Onto-Theology” (Jewish Thought 3 [2021], 181-220); “Hegel’s Notion of Recollection in Comparison to Agnes Heller’s Notion of Imagination”, In Statu Nascendi 4.2 (2021), 181-190; Personhood between Patristic Tradition and Analytic Philosophy (2019). Dr. Panayiotou is preparing a chapter which will be published next year: (2024) “Hegel and Levinas on the Notion of Esoteric Thought”, ed. O. Pitkanen, in Philosophical Perspectives on Esotericism: History and Present (London: Routledge), as well as his postdoctoral research entitled "Hegel and Levinas on the limits of conceptual language".