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Till Kinzel
Private Scholar
Panajotis Kondylis as a Historian of the Enlightenment and the Early Modern Critique of Metaphysics
Abstract: Kondylis' practice of the historiography of philosophy in Die Aufklärung im Rahmen des neuzeitlichen Rationalismus (1981) and Die neuzeitliche Metaphysikkritik (1990) constitutes an impressive part of his oeuvre that partakes of a genealogical and polemological approach to understanding philosophical theories... (Read full abstract)
Sebastian Edinger
Private Scholar
Kondylis' Methodology ("Power and Decision", Intellectual History, and "Planetary Politics")
Abstract: In my presentation, I will draw an explanatory line between three strands in Kondylis' work: the theory of power as set out in Power and Decision, political theory as set out in Planetary Politics after the Cold War, and the methodology of the history of ideas as set out in The Enlightenment in the Framework of Modern Rationalism and The Modern Era Critique of Metaphysics... (Read full abstract)
Alexey Zhavoronkov
Goethe University Frankfurt
Conservatism as a Concrete Historical Phenomenon
Abstract: The subject of my talk is Konservativismus: Geschichtlicher Gehalt und Untergang (1986), Kondylis’ most monumental and influential political study. I describe its place and role in Kondylis’ work, including its methodological relation to his previous studies in the history of ideas and his later works on planetary politics and the decline of bourgeois thought... (Read full abstract)
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