Dr. Pericles S. Vallianos, received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brandeis University.

His specialization was in the history of ideas with a doctoral thesis on Hegel’s social and economic thought. He taught philosophy first at Hellenic College in Boston and upon his return to Greece at the American College of Greece. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Athens. Some of the articles and books he has authored are the following:

A Greek translation and critical edition with an extended introduction of Hegel’s essay “Faith and Knoweldge”.

Hellenism, Science, Criticism: The conceptual Foundations Of Modernity

The Shield of Achilles: Aspects of Ancient Greek Political Experience

Justice cosmique et droit politique. Le cas d’Antigone chez Hegel

Hegel and Greek Philosophy: The Claims of Historical Reason

Romanticism and Politics: From Heinrich Heine to Carl Schmitt –And Back Again

Politics as Mediation: Law and the Private Sphere in the Late Plato.