Kosmas Raspitsos is Assistant Professor of Literary Translation and Comparative Literature in the Department of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied German Philology in Athens and Berlin and completed postgraduate studies in Translation Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br. Dissertation title: The Latinization of Greek. Translation, Understanding, and Language in Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. During his doctoral studies he was a fellow of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation. From 2019 to 2025 he taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras. He was also an academic fellow in the Department of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2016–2018). In addition, he worked as a German language teacher in secondary education and at the Hellenic Naval Academy. His research interests include hermeneutics, translation theory, philosophy of language, Greek–German literary and cultural relations, and the environmental humanities. Among other courses, he has taught Philosophical Hermeneutics, Philosophy and Literature, Translation of Literary Texts and Essays, German Romanticism, German Philosophy, and Philosophy of Culture and Religion, among others.
Selected Publications:
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Λαϊκήθρησκείακαιχριστιανισμός (Volksreligion und Christentum). Translated in Greek with an Introduction and Afterword by Kosmas Raspitsos. EditionΡοές, Athens 2025. https://printa-roes.gr/shop/hegel-g-w-f-laiki-thriskeia-xristianismos/
- Raspitsos, Kosmas, Hermeneutisches Jenseits. Unbestimmtheit und Sprache bei Heidegger, Gadamer und Castoriadis. In: Allner, Friederike/Goldberg, Michael Nathan (eds.), Sprache und Aussersprachlichkeit. Neue Perspektiven auf ein Paradigma der Hermeneutik. Brill/Schöningh 2025, p. 67-82. https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/70953
- Raspitsos, Kosmas, Die griechische Alternative. Zu einem Topos der Moderne bei Friedrich Nietzsche und Martin Heidegger. In: Antonopoulou, Anastasia/Hofmann, Michael/Traka, Theano (eds.), Deutsche Griechenland-Diskurse und Griechisch-Deutscher Kulturtransfer. Königshausen & Neumann. Würzburg 2025, p. 173-183. https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826077586-deutsche-griechenland-diskurse-und-griechisch-deutscher-kulturtransfer/
- Raspitsos, Kosmas, Martin Heidegger on the Translation of Greek Philosophy. EditionΡοές. Athens 2023 (Greek). https://biblionet.gr/titleinfo/?titleid=283381&return_url.
- Heidegger, Martin, Παραδοσιακήγλώσσακαιτεχνικήγλώσσα (ÜberlieferteSprache und technischeSprache) Translated in Greek with an Introduction by Kosmas Raspitsos. Bilingual Edition. EditionΠερισπωμένη. Athens 2023. https://biblionet.gr/titleinfo/?titleid=284034&return_url
- Raspitsos, Kosmas, „Schlaf, Persephone, in den Armen der Erde“. Ein philosophischer Kommentar zu Nikos Gatsos’ „Der Alptraum von Persephone“. In: Albrecht, Monika/Antonopoulou, Anastasia (eds.), Anthropogene Klima- und Umweltkrisen. Griechisch-deutsche Beiträge zu Ecocriticism und Environmental Humanities. transcript Verlag. Bielefeld 2022, p. 141-150. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839462980-010/html.
- Raspitsos, Kosmas, Die Latinisierung des Griechischen. Übersetzung, Verstehen und Sprache im Ausgang von Martin Heidegger und Hans-Georg Gadamer. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013. https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826051289-die-latinisierung-des-griechischen/
