Fotis Terzakis

Fotis Terzakis was born in 1959 in Patras. He founded and directed the publishing house "Praxis" (1982-1990) and was a regular collaborator with "Prisma" publications (1990-94). Since 1998, he has been designing and editing the series "Ishtar: Anthropology of Sexuality" for "Oxy" publications. He has conducted research in various fields of the humanities through seminars. Since 1992, he has co-organized an Independent Seminar on Religious Studies, which in 1997 led to the creation of the Society for Religious Studies (of which he was a founding member and first secretary), and he was one of the main contributors to the "Dictionary of Religious Studies" published by "Ellinika Grammata." He has published numerous essays and reviews in periodicals and works as a book critic for the newspapers "Eleftherotypia" and "Kathimerini." He has also presented a large number of translations in related fields. His works include: "The Blood of Language"; "Six Poems" (Ostraka, Patras 1988); "Nature and Society: Genealogy of a Type of Consciousness and a Relationship of Domination" (Erasmos, 1990); "Notes for an Anthropology of Music" (Prisma, 1990); "Liberalism and Terrorism: Political Texts" (Prisma, 1991); "The Antipodes of the '60s: Behind the Ambiguous Concept of Postmodernism and Through New Social Movements" (Prisma, 1992); "The Ghost of a Decade: Culture and Alternative Culture in the 1960s" (collective volume, edited with Soti Triantafyllou, Delfini, 1994); "Philosophical Reformism: Problems of Dialectics and Totality in the Philosophy and Political Theory of Jurgen Habermas" (Erasmos, 1996); "Dialectics Redefined: Contribution to the Exploration of the Philosophical and Anthropological Foundations of a Concept" (Filistor, 1996); "Studies on the Sacred" (Ellinika Grammata, 1997); "Irrationalism, Fundamentalism, and Religious Revival: The Colors of the Chessboard" (Ellinika Grammata, 1998); "The Names of Dionysus: Announcements of a Perpetually Deferred Arrival" (Oxy, 2000).