The library of philosopher Jean-Pierre Schobinger

The collection was donated to the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in 2016 by Penelope Papamandellou-Schobinger. The collection consists of approximately 2,500 books and 300 journals. It is an exclusively philosophical collection, covering philosophical theories from their inception, including ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, and it features key references for the various schools, theories, and movements encountered throughout the history of philosophical thought up to the present day. It also includes, in smaller numbers, works of ancient Greek and Roman literature, theological and scientific texts, as well as historical studies.

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Jean-Pierre Schobinger (1927-2001) was a Swiss philosopher and professor of philosophy. He studied philosophy at the University of Zurich, where he also taught as a professor. He published the series “Philosophy in the 17th Century” as part of the monumental work “Compendium of the History of Philosophy” by the German philosopher Friedrich Ueberweg. Schobinger systematically studied 17th-century philosophers and also conducted research on more modern philosophers (Nietzsche, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, and others), as well as on the interpretation of ethical and natural philosophical texts. He was a great admirer of Greece, both ancient and modern, from a young age. In the 1950s, he co-founded with other philhellenes in Switzerland the “Aristotle’s Fellowship Lodge,” where they studied, interpreted, and analyzed texts of Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy from the original ancient Greek texts. During the dictatorship in Greece, he supported the Greek Resistance. In 1968, he married Penelope Papamandellou in Athens, who was then actively involved in the internal Resistance. Together, they hosted missions of members of Democratic Defense and PAK in Zurich, carried out secret missions for the Greek Resistance in Greece, and provided help and support to those persecuted by the junta, including prisoners and their families. For the last 25 years of his life, Schobinger divided his time between Zurich and Rhodes.