Christos Yannaras

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Christos Yannaras

Christos Yannaras ( Greek Χρήστος Γιανναράς Christos Giannaras , born April 10, 1935 in Athens ) is a Greek philosopher and author of more than 50 books, many of which have been translated into 12 languages.

Life

Christos Yannaras is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Panteion University in Athens . He studied theology at the University of Athens and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the University of Paris . He is a doctor of the theological faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Sorbonne (Paris) in the field of philosophy and an honorary doctorate in philosophy at the University of Belgrade . Visiting professorships took him to the universities of Paris, Geneva , Lausanne and Crete . From 1982 to 2002 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Athens and an elected member of the Society of Greek Authors .

The focus of Yannaras' work is the systematic exploration of the differences between Greek and Western European philosophy and tradition, differences that are not limited to theory but also define the practice of life.

Fonts

  • Person and Eros. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982. English translation: Person and Eros. HC Press, Brookline (MA) 2008, ISBN 978-1-885652-88-1 .
  • Against Religion: The Alienation of the Ecclesial Event. HC Press, Brookline (MA) 2013.
  • The Enigma of Evil. HC Press, Brookline (MA) 2012.
  • Relational Ontology. HC Press, Brookline (MA) 2011.
  • The Meaning of Reality: Essays on Existence and Communion, Eros and History. Sebastian Press, Los Angeles 2011.
  • Orthodoxy and the West. HC Press, Brookline (MA) 2006, ISBN 1-885652-81-X .
  • Variations on the Song of Songs. HC Press, Brookline (MA) 2005, ISBN 1-885652-82-8 .
  • Postmodern Metaphysics. HC Press, Brookline (MA) 2004, ISBN 1-885652-80-1 , table of contents online .
  • On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite. Continuum, London 2005, ISBN 0-567-08806-5 .
  • Elements of Faith. T&T Clark, Edinburgh 1991, ISBN 0-567-29190-1 .
  • The Freedom of Morality. SVP, New York 1984, ISBN 0-88141-028-4 .

literature

  • Daniel P. Payne: The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought. The Political Hesychasm of John S. Romanides and Christos Yannaras. Lexington Books, Lanham 2011, ISBN 978-0-7391-4720-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dorothea Gnau: Becoming a person. Theological anthropology in the work of the contemporary Orthodox theologians Panagiotis Nellas, Christos Yannaras and Ioannis Zizioulas . (PDF) Dissertation, Freiburg 2005, pp. 129–137.
  2. Cf. for example Christos Yannaras: Who does ancient Greece belong to? Erfurt Lectures on the Cultural History of Orthodox Christianity, 8/2009 ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)