Nikos Erinakis is an Assistant Professor of Social and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Crete. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy [University of London & recognised research student at the University of Oxford], having studied Economics [AUEB], Philosophy and Literature [Warwick] and Philosophy of the Social Sciences [LSE]. He has taught Political & Social Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of London and he now also teaches at the University of Athens, the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Hellenic Open University. He is the Director of Research at the Institute for Alternative Policies - ENA and he is a board member of the Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra and has been a board member of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. He has been honored with the Best Philosophical Treatise Award by the Academy of Athens for his first philosophy book Authenticity and Autonomy: From Creativity to Freedom (Keimena, 2020). He is also a published, critically acclaimed, poet and translator of modern European poets. His papers, articles and poems have been translated and published in peer-reviewed journals, edited collections, anthologies and the popular press.

E-mail: nikos.erinakis@uoc.gr ♦ ORCID iD:  0000-0001-7188-2993