Panagiotis Kondylis

Panagiotis Kondylis
Panagiotis Kondylis's only published picture[3]
Born17 August 1943
Drouva near Olympia, Elis, Greece
Died11 July 1998 (aged 54)
Athens, Greece
Alma materUniversity of Athens
Goethe University Frankfurt
University of Heidelberg
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Western Marxism[1]
Conservatism[2]
Main interests
Social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of culture
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Panagiotis Kondylis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Κονδύλης; German: Panajotis Kondylis; 17 August 1943 – 11 July 1998) was a Greek philosopher, intellectual historian, translator and publications manager who principally wrote in German, in addition to translating most of his work into Greek. He can be placed in a tradition of thought best exemplified by Thucydides, Niccolò Machiavelli and Max Weber.[4]

Kondylis produced a body of work that referred directly to primary sources in no less than six languages (Greek, Latin, German, French, Italian and English), and had little regard for what he considered intellectual fashions and bombastic language used to camouflage logical inconsistencies and lack of first-hand knowledge of primary sources.

  1. ^ Paul Gottfried, "The obsoleteness of conservatism", 25 November 2008: "Kondylis identifies himself with Marxism, broadly understood."
  2. ^ Paul Gottfried, "The obsoleteness of conservatism", 25 November 2008: "Kondylis identifies himself with Marxism, broadly understood."
  3. ^ During his lifetime he refused to publish any of his photographs. When asked for a photograph for a German academic yearbook, he chose to write a small note instead: "I cannot understand the relationship between a writer's appearance and the value of his theoretical work." This photograph was released publicly by his family posthumously.
  4. ^ Other thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Hobbes, Spinoza, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Hume, Kant, De Sade, Clausewitz, Marx, Nietzsche, Pareto, Simmel, Durkheim, Cassirer, Schmitt and Aron were among the important points of reference in his thinking, notwithstanding the significant differences he had with some of these writers.