Panagiotis Kondylis - The Rest done in part

Note that based on the foreword (esp. S. 17-18) to P.K.'s first book as an essential reference text (to paraphrase Koselleck, who was referring to P.K's oeuvre as a whole), i.e. on dialectics immediately above, P.K. had not only completed the book on dialectics, but had also at the very least worked out the basis for his 1981 book on the Enlightenment and 1986 book on Conservatism, as well as Macht und Entscheidung (1984) etc. by the summer of 1976, i.e. by 32/33 years of age !!! (cf. note in relation to "The Old and the New Godhead", below.)

FOOTNOTE 11, p. 67 : The central significance, importance, meaning of anthropology for the tendency we are examining appears in works like those of E. Fromm, Marx’s Concept of Man, New York 1961. Fromm stresses that Marx did not share in / sympathise with absolute sociological relativism, nor did he accept that man is born as a blank slate / tabula rasa, but rather saw him as an entity biologically and psychologically fixed. He also stresses that Marx separates this general human nature from its specific expression in every culture / civilisation, at the same time dilating, expanding its (human nature’s) stable drives, urges, impulses from its variable drives, urges, impulses (op. cit., p. 24 ff.). The significance, importance, meaning of these positions, theses for our analysis is obvious. [[KRAZY MAN ADDS THAT “PUT THAT WAY” (IN ZIO-1978), WE HAVE A SCHEMA GENERAL ENOUGH TO ENCOMPASS P.K.’s FUNDAMENTAL (ANTHROPOLOGICAL) POSITIONS IN MACHT UND ENTSCHEIDUNG / POWER AND DECISION (1984), EVEN THOUGH MARX DID NOT ARTICULATE THEM AS SUCH, WITH HIS ESCHATOLOGICAL UTOPIANISM AND CLASS-BASED NORMATIVISM-DETERMINISM CLOUDING THE MANY PROFOUND SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF THE BEST PARTS OF HIS THOUGHT. OF COURSE, SUCH AN “ANTHROPOLOGICALLY-BASED” EXAMINATION OF MAN NECESSARILY WAS COMPLEMENTED AND PERFECTED BY THE OBSERVATIONS MADE AND CONCLUSIONS DRAWN IN DAS POLITISCHE UND DER MENSCH / THE POLITICAL AND MAN (1999) WITH A MUCH MORE COMPLETE CONNECTION BEING DESCRIBED AND EXPLAINED BY P.K. BETWEEN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL, THE HISTORICAL, THE SOCIOLOGICAL AND THE SOCIAL ONTOLOGICAL.]]