Dmitri V. Nikulin

Dmitri V. Nikulin (born 1962) is a philosopher and the Agnes Heller Research Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York City, U.S. He has been a visiting professor at the École pratique des hautes études, Paris and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He has been a Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany, at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he worked with Alvin Plantinga, and at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Published works Books Metaphysik und Ethik. Theoretische und praktische Philosophie in Antike und Neuzeit. München: C. H. Beck, 1996. Matter, Imagination and Geometry: Ontology, Natural Philosophy, and Mathematics in Plotinus, Proclus, and Descartes. Ashgate, 2002. On Dialogue. Lexington, 2006. Dialectic and Dialogue. Stanford University Press, 2010. Comedy, Seriously: A Philosophical Study. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. The Concept of History. Bloomsbury, 2017. Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2019. Facets of Modernity: Reflections on Fractured Subjectivity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Critique of Bored Reason: On the Confinement of the Modern Condition. Columbia University Press, 2022. Non-Being In Ancient Thought . Oxford University Press, 2025.

Edited volumes The Other Plato. SUNY Press, 2012. Memory: A History. Oxford University Press, 2015. Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity (co-edited with Cinzia Arruzza). Brill, 2016. Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance (co-edited with Saulius Geniusas). Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.