ABSTRACT
Christos Yannaras explored the particular origins, directions, and possibilities of Greek thought, not only in order to point to its differences from Western thought, but also with an eye to the participation of Greece, as a state and as a culture, in the wider European and international context. As a philosopher and theologian, he expressed his thought using philosophical and theological language, yet his approach moved steadily towards the apophatic experience, beyond the realm of words.
Manos Hadjidakis, probably the most important Greek composer of the 20th century, expressed the same concerns in his writings, and also in his music, using artistic language. As a mirror image of Yannaras, the thought of Hadjidakis started from musical creation, and yet, maintaining its grounding in the ineffable, it touched on very similar philosophical strands.
The parallel examination of these two thinkers demonstrates their profound similarities and allows us to triangulate and map their concerns more precisely against modern Greek culture and thought.
