Étienne Helmer

Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico (USA). His principal areas of interest are the economic, political and social ideas of Ancient Greece. Some of his most important contributions are La part du bronze. Platon et l’économie (Vrin, 2010), Épicure ou l’économie du bonheur (Le Passager clandestin, 2013), Le Dernier des Hommes. Figures du mendiant en Grèce ancienne (Le Félin, 2015) and Diogènes le cinique (Les Belles Lettres, 2017). In 2017 he was awarded a prize by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a book on philosophical perspectives of the economy in Ancient Greece (under way).