Alex Koutsogiannis holds a BA in sociology from Panteion University in Athens (Greece), and MA and DPhil degrees in social and political thought from Sussex University in the UK. He is currently an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Crete. His research and publications focus on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, theories of democracy and the state, and the political theory of the Athenian Polis. Alex is the author of three books (in Greek): a) Critical Political Theory: From the Totalitarian State to the Governable Society, Pedio Books, Athens (Forthcoming), b) Alienation and the Possibility of Freedom, Pedio Books, Athens, 2021, c) Individual and Social Responsibility in a Democratic Framework of Social Policy. Institute of Strategic and Development Studies “Andreas Papandreou”, Athens, 2004. His most recent publication titled “The Political Theorization of Freedom in Marcuse’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics” is a chapter included in the volume Revisiting Critique: Perspectives on Marcuse and Habermas, edited by Amirhosein Khandizaji (Palgrave, 2025).
