Alex Koutsogiannis is an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Crete. His academic and research interests include critical political theory, ranging from Rousseau to Foucault, with a particular emphasis on the political dimensions of the Frankfurt School’s critical theory. He also works on theories of democracy and the state, as well as on the political theory of the Athenian polis.
Alex is the author of three books in Greek: Critical Political Theory: From the Totalitarian State to the Governable Society (Pedio Books, Athens, forthcoming); Alienation and the Possibility of Freedom (Pedio Books, Athens, 2021); and Individual and Social Responsibility in a Democratic Framework of Social Policy (Institute of Strategic and Development Studies, Athens, 2004).
His most recent publication, titled “The Political Theorization of Freedom in Marcuse’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics,” appears as a chapter in the edited volume Revisiting Marcuse: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives (edited by Amirhosein Khandizaji, Palgrave, 2025). His work on critical theory also includes the article “Political Positivism and Political Existentialism: Revisiting Herbert Marcuse,” published in BJCT 3:3 (2019).
