Michalis Pagalos

Michalis Pagkalos was born in 1970 in Athens. He studied philosophy in Paris and Athens. His doctoral dissertation, defended in Paris (EHESS) in July 2003 under the supervision of Vincent Descombes, explores the relationship between literature and the "philosophy of action." Since 2007, he has been working as a philologist in Secondary Education and simultaneously teaching philosophy at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). He has translated the following books: Charles Taylor, "The Malaise of Modernity" (Ekkremes 2006), Emmanuel Levinas, "Liberty and Command" (Estia, 2007), Myriam Revault d'Allonnes, "The Compassionate Man" (Estia, 2013), among others. He has also published articles on literature and moral and political philosophy, the relationship between messianism and utopia (in the collective volume "The Messianic Idea and Its Transformations," Artos Zois, 2011), Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Emmanuel Levinas, Primo Levi, Paul Ricoeur, and others in journals such as Nea Estia, Synaxi, "Cahiers d'Etudes Levinassiennes," among others.