David Fideler has worked as an editor, college professor, educational consultant, and the director of a humanities center. He was also a contributing editor to two national magazines.

During his early twenties he studied Mediterranean religions, ancient Greek philosophy, and Christian origins at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and the History of Science and Cosmology, which focused on the relationships between science, worldview, and culture.

Through his work, he has attempted to build bridges between the world of learning and contemporary life.

At the age of twenty-four, he founded Phanes Press, with the primary aim of publishing The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library. Initially focusing on works in ancient philosophy and religions, Phanes Press went on to publish interdisciplinary works in creativity, cultural studies, ecology, and psychology. He also edited five volumes of a humanities journal published in book form, Alexandria: Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth, and Culture. Phanes Press published over fifty books before being sold in 2004.

A recognized authority on the Pythagorean school, Fideler contributed encyclopedia articles on Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism to Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (1997) and The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (2004).

As an outgrowth of his earlier work, in 2002 he founded a humanities and educational center, which offered forty-five programs during a one-and-a-half year period. The mission statement of the educational center was “to foster communities of deeper learning and encourage the type of cultural, civic, and spiritual literacy that enables individuals to flourish as human beings, and to participate as well-informed and effective citizens in our local and global communities.”

Communications, Publishing, and Consulting Work

David is the developer of the Core Message Analysis process, and works as a consultant and copywriter to companies across the country, helping them to create more effective marketing messages based on the real value they offer.

He is also the owner of Concord Editorial and Design, which provides design, production, and book packaging services for university presses and trade publishers.