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Panagiotis Kondylis〔Also transliterated as ''Panagiotes Kondyles''.〕 ((ギリシア語:Παναγιώτης Κονδύλης); (ドイツ語:Panajotis Kondylis); 17 August 1943 – 11 July 1998) was a Greek writer, 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.〔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.〕 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. ==Life== Born in 1943 in the small community of Drouva (Δρούβα) near Olympia, Greece, where the Kondylis' family house is still standing today, he moved with his father, who was a military officer, at the age of six to Kifisia, Athens, where he attended school. Kondylis studied classical philology and philosophy at the University of Athens (at which time he was drawn to Marxism〔Manfred Lauermann: Das Ausweichen vor Spinoza ... Zugleich: Hommage à Panajotis Kondylis. In: Fünfzehnte Etappe (Bonn, Oktober 2000), p. 72, which relates that during the Greek military junta (1967–1974) Kondylis had been a member of the Greek Communist Party. Cf. Κονδύλης, Π. ''Το Αόρατο Χρονολόγιο της Σκέψης (ΑΧΣ)'', Νεφέλη, 1998, pp. 45, 51. However, in Kondylis's first known article, which most likely dates from 1964, entitled «Οι επαναστατικές ιδεολογίες και ο μαρξισμός» ("Revolutionary Ideologies and Marxism") in ''Μελαγχολία και Πολεμική''. Athens: Θεμέλιο, 2002 (''Melancholy and Polemics'') Kondylis writes about the ideologisation of Marxism (as occurs with all initially revolutionary movements such as Christianity), and its distortion and conversion into a party-political and bureaucratic means of control, suggesting he had already moved away from dogmatic "faith" in communist revolution by the age of 21.〕), as well as philosophy, medieval and modern history and political science at the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg. During his postgraduate studies at Heidelberg he earned his PhD (under the supervision of Dieter Henrich) with the 700-page study of the origins of post-Kantian German idealism, including the early years of Hegel, Schelling and Hölderlin: ''Die Entstehung der Dialektik'' (''The Genesis of Dialectics''), which supported views considered innovative and provocative at the time, including illuminating the pre-history of Marxism and the world-theoretical presuppοsitions of the Marxist philosophy of history. Outstanding German historians Werner Conze and Reinhart Koselleck were important guiding influences during his formative years in Heidelberg. Kondylis was awarded the Goethe Medal in 1991. As a recipient of the Humboldt Prize he also was in 1994/95 a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Kondylis, though, was independent – a ''Privatgelehrter'' (private scholar) who never aspired to an academic career apart from one attempt in the early 1980s when he entered into discussions with the Philosophy Department of the University of Athens, applying for a placement. His application was confronted with the distrust of the conservative faculty of the philosophical department. Although Kondylis was supported by the then well-known professor Theofilos Veikos, he still had to contend with the opposition of many University based philosophers and subsequently did not succeed in commencing a career as an academic. Thereafter, he never expressed any wish for an academic career (expressing the view that "academic philosophy is dead and buried"),〔Letter to Bernd A. Laska of 16 June 1985, in (Bernd A. Laska: ''Panajotis Kondylis – unfreiwilliger Pate des LSR-Projekts'' ); Cf. (''Interview with Rudolf Burger'' ) in: Wiener Zeitung, 1. Juni 2007.〕 although he was offered a lot of honorary placements, including by the University of Ioannina, which he politely refused. He died in Athens in 1998. His library of some 5000 titles based in his house in Politeia, Athens was donated by his sister, Melpo Kondylis (Μέλπω Κονδύλη), to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in which a special "Kondylis" section exists in the campus library. In November 2008 a conference was held in Heidelberg honouring the memory of the late Panagiotis Kondylis. A similar event was held in Greece on 22 May 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Panagiotis Kondylis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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