Panagiotis Kondylis
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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]
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Panagiotis Kondylis | |
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Born | 17 August 1943 |
Died | 11 July 1998 (aged 54) Athens, Greece |
Alma mater | University of Athens Goethe University Frankfurt University of Heidelberg |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Western Marxism[2] Conservatism[3] |
Main interests | Social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of culture |
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.