Global Utilities

Philosophy Program

Staff Profiles

Dr George Vassilacopoulos

Position Lecturer
Room: Hu2 216
Tel: +61 3 9479 2808
Fax: +61 3 9479 3639
Email: g.vassilacopoulos@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA(Hons) PhD(LaTrobe)

Research Interests

German Idealism
• Philosophy and Modernity
• History, the future and hope
• Hegel's Science of Logic
• Ontology, ethics, Politics and Aesthetics
• Hegel

20th century Continental Philosophy
• Modernity and Postmodernity
• Heidegger, Levinas and Deleuze

Greek Philosophy
• Plato
• The Pre-Socratics
• Aristotle

Aesthetics
• Creativity, Utopia
• Social Criticism

Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
• Subjectivity, whiteness, race and ethnicity
• Property and Indigenous sovereignty rights
• White Australian society, Indigenous and migrant communities

Teaching
  • Media Ethics
  • Professional Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Plato and the Meaning of Being
  • Heidegger & European philosophy

List of Publications

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Last Updated: 2 September, 2008