Nikolas Kompridis is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (MIT), Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge), the Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury), and Cinematic Heterotopias: Fugitive Spaces of Refuge and Freedom (Routledge, forthcoming). He has also published more than 60 referred articles on a wide range of topics in philosophy, political theory, and aesthetics, and is currently working on a new book proposing a radical change in the direction of critical theory that responds to the ethical and political challenges of the 21st century. Since his “retirement” six years ago as Research Professor and Foundation Director of the Institute for Social Justice in Sydney, he has been a Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University Berlin, Fellow and Faculty Associate at the Centre for Ethics at the University and Toronto, and has recently joined the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University as a Visiting Professor.
