1. Panagiotis Kondylis 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.
10 Facts About Panagiotis Kondylis
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Panagiotis Kondylis can be placed in a tradition of thought best exemplified by Thucydides, Niccolo Machiavelli and Max Weber.
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Panagiotis Kondylis studied classical philology and philosophy at the University of Athens, as well as philosophy, medieval and modern history and political science at the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg.
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Panagiotis Kondylis's application was confronted with the distrust of the conservative faculty of the philosophical department.
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Panagiotis Kondylis was interested in a number of areas of study including: the Enlightenment and the preceding Renaissance-era critiques of metaphysics; the philosophy of war and Clausewitz, as well as the work of Hegel and Marx; Western bourgeois culture and its decline; Conservatism; post-Modernity, and International Affairs.
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Panagiotis Kondylis translated into modern Greek classic works by authors such as: Xenophon, Burnham, Machiavelli, Marx, Lichtenberg, Pavese, Montesquieu, Chamfort, Rivarol, Schiller, Cassirer and Carl Schmitt.
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Panagiotis Kondylis's best known books are: Die Aufklarung and Macht und Entscheidung.
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In Macht und Entscheidung Panagiotis Kondylis set forth the theoretical basis for his attitude to existence and his own endeavours as an author and social scientist.
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Panagiotis Kondylis claimed that this was a reconstruction not coherent with Clausewitz's thought.
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Panagiotis Kondylis's published works as a whole can be seen as a unified series of analyses based on an unwavering adherence to empirical fact and logical consistency no matter what aspect of study is being emphasised at any given time.