Humanities and Social Sciences

Philosophy Program

Staff Profiles

Dr George Vassilacopoulos

Recent Publications

Books
Hegel and the Logical Structure of Love: An Essay on Sexualities, Family and the Law, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Aldershot Ashagte 1999.

From Foreigner to Citizen: Greek Migrants and Social Change in White Australia (1897-2000), with Toula Nicolacopoulos, (Greek) Eothinon Publications, 2004.

Journal articles and book chapters
"The Spirit of the Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking" co-authored with Toula Nicolacopoulos & Paul Ashton, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 3:2-3 (2007).

"The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel's Philosophy" co-authored with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 3:2-3 (2007).

"Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel's Philosophy" Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 3:2-3 (2007).

"Plato's Republic and the End of Philosophy" Philosophical Inquiry: International Quarterly, XXIX:1-2 (2007).

"The Greek-Australian Unemployed Movement and the Construction of the Migrants' Rights Discourse" with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Proceedings of the 6th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, June 2005, Flinders University, Adelaide, 2007.

"Philosophy and Revolution: Badiou's Infidelity to the Event" with Toula Nicolacopoulos, in Paul Ashton, A.J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens, eds, The Praxis of Alain Badiou, Re.Press, Melbourne, 2006.

"Philosophy and Revolution: Badiou's Infidelity to the Event" with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2:1-2 (2006).

"Australian Cultural Memory and the Visionary Appropriation of History" with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Special Issue on Culture & Memory (2006).

"On the systemic meaning of meaningless utterances" co-authored with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 1:1 (2005).
www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/25/0

"Rethinking the radical potential of the concept of multiculturalism", co-authored with Toula Nicolacopoulos, The Body Politic Conference Proceedings, Australian Studies Centre, Queensland University, 2005.
www.asc.uq.edu.au/bodypolitic/nicolacopoulos-vassilacopoulos.pdf

“Ethnicity as an organisational concept in the life of the community” with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Modern Greek Studies Conference, 11-13 April 2003, Flinders University, Adelaide, 2005.

“On the methodology of Greek-Australian historiography”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Modern Greek Studies Conference, 11-13 April 2003, Flinders University, Adelaide, 2005.

“Becoming Australian by choice: Greek-Australian activism in 1960s Melbourne”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, in S. O'Hanlyn and T. Luckins, eds, Go! Melbourne in the 60s, Circa Books, Melbourne, 2005.

“ Racism, xenophobia and the onto-pathology of white Australian subjectivity”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, in Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ed. Whitening race: Essays in social and cultural criticism, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004.

“On the other side of xenophobia: Philoxenia as the ground of refugee rights”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Australian Journal of Human Rights,10:1 (2004) pp. 63-78 .

“From epistemological indeterminism to ontological integrity: ethnicity and generational differences in collaborative life history writing”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos and Joanne Kyrkilis, a/b: auto/biographies, 19:1/2 (2004) pp. 275-285.

“The making of Greek-Australian citizenship: from heteronomous to autonomous political communities”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 11/12 (2003/2004) pp. 165-176.

“Inquiry into hope” with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Critical and Creative Thinking: The Australasian Journal of Philosophy in Schools, Vol.11 No.2 (2003), pp.1-7.

“Doubly Outsiders: Pre-war Greek-Australian migrants and their socialist ideal”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Hellenic Studies, Vol.10 No.2, 2002, pp.141-158.

“Asylum seekers and the concept of the foreigner”, with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Social Alternatives, Vol. 29 No.4, 2002, pp.45-49.

Recent Conference Papers
"Dasein and Property Ownership: Towards an appreciation of the historical significance of Heidegger's Thought" Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living Conference, 12-14 December 2005, University of Sydney.

"Theorizing Whiteness: Some meta-theoretical issues" with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Whiteness and the Horizons of Race Conference, 7-9 December 2005, Australian Studies Centre, Queensland.

"Rethinking the radical potential of the concept of multiculturalism" co-authored with Toula Nicolacopoulos, The Body Politic Conference, 24-26 November 2004, Australian Studies Centre, Queensland.

"Struggles to belong: Greek migrants and citizenship rights" co-authored with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Greek Research, June 23-26 2005, Flinders University, South Australia.

"The Greek-Australian unemployed movement and the construction of the migrant rights discourse" co-authored with Toula Nicolacopoulos, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Greek Research, June 23-26 2005, Flinders University, South Australia.

“Greek-Australian community development: Diversity and solidarity in place of loyalty”, Community Development Human Rights and the Grassroots Conference, Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, Deakin University, 14-18 April 2004.

“Indigenous and white Australians: The ontological encountering and the betrayal of thought”, Placing Race and Localising Whiteness Conference, 1-3 October 2003, Flinders University, Adelaide.

“Discursive constructions of the Southern European foreigner”, Placing Race and Localising Whiteness Conference, 1-3 October 2003, Flinders University, Adelaide.