This article examines the ideological trajectory of Ioannis Metaxas and his intellectual Weltanschauung. It argues that he was strongly influenced by several German developments, including the Kultur vs. Zivilisation debate. Furthermore, from the 1920s he explicitly transformed key fascist ideas and drew on those of the ‘Conservative Revolution’. It shows that Metaxas addressed all key historical developments, from the turn of the century, to the establishment of his dictatorship, to the Second World War, through his ideological and intellectual prism: national reconstruction and palingenesis and a new cultural orientation for the Greek nation. Metaxas’s thinking is examined from its formative period in Germany (1899–1903) to his dictatorship (1936–1941). The methodological framework draws on the work of Peter Wagner, who conceives the period from 1870 to 1940 as the heyday of the ‘first crisis of modernity’; the work of Roger Griffin, Aristotle Kallis, and António Costa Pinto centred around the palingenetic, modernist dynamic of fascism; and finally, the notion of ‘intellectual appropriation of technology’ developed by Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison.

本文考察了 Ioannis Metaxas 的思想轨迹和他的知识世界观。它认为他受到了德国几项发展的强烈影响，包括Kultur vs. Zivilisation辩论。此外，从 1920 年代开始，他明确转变了主要的法西斯思想，并借鉴了“保守革命”的思想。它表明，梅塔克萨斯通过他的思想和知识棱镜，从世纪之交，到他的独裁统治的建立，再到第二次世界大战，处理了所有关键的历史发展：国家重建和历史更新以及希腊民族的新文化方向. 梅塔克萨斯的思想从其在德国的形成时期（1899-1903）到他的独裁统治（1936-1941）进行了考察。方法论框架借鉴了彼得·瓦格纳 (Peter Wagner) 的著作，他将 1870 年至 1940 年这段时期视为“第一次现代性危机”的鼎盛时期；罗杰·格里芬 (Roger Griffin)、亚里士多德·卡利斯 (Aristotle Kallis) 和安东尼奥·科斯塔·平托 (António Costa Pinto) 的作品围绕法西斯主义的现代主义动态展开；最后，