Merab Mamardashvili

Merab Mamardashvili on the cover of his book The Arrow of Cognition

Merab Mamardashvili (Georgian მერაბ მამარდაშვილი, Russian Мера́б Константи́нович Мамардашви́ли; September 15, 1930 — November 25, 1990) was a Georgian philosopher, Doctor of Sciences (1968), Professor (1972). He was born in Gori (Eastern Georgia). In 1955 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University. From 1968 to 1987 he was a Deputy Editor of the scientific journal "Voprosi Filosofii" ("Questions of Philosophy"). He became a Professor of the Moscow State University and a Senior Research Fellow of the Moscow Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science. From 1987-1990 Mamardashvili was head of the Department of the Tsereteli Institute of Philosophy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and Professor of the Tbilisi State University.

In his life only a few books were published, his lectures (for his style of lecturing he and others called them "conversations" or "dialogues" and he was called "russian (or georgian) Socrates") were taped and published after his death by his disciple Yuri Senokosov. Lecturing abroad, Mamardashvili gave talks in Germany, France, and other countries. He died from a heart attack at a Moscow Airport on November 25, 1990.

Influenced by classical German philosophy (especially Immanuel Kant), Mamardashvili contributed to rationalist theory of perception.

In May 2001 a monument to him was unveiled in Tbilisi.

Bibliography

• Forms and Contents of Thinking (1968) (Формы и содержание мышления)
• The Problem of Objective Method in Psychology (1977)
• Символ и сознание, 1982, together with A.Piatigorsky
• Classic and Non-classic Ideals of Rationality (1984) (Классические и неклассические идеалы рациональности)
• Phenomenology and its Role in Contemporary Philosophy (1988)
• How Do I Understand Philosophy? (1990) (Как я понимаю философию)
• Conscious and the Philosophical Calling (1988)
• Cartesian Meditations (published 1993) (Картезианские размышления)
• Psychological Topology of Path (Lectures on Proust) (1997) (Психологическая топология пути (Лекции о Прусте))

See also

• List of Georgians
• Philosophy in the Soviet Union

External links

• A 1989 Interview from The Civic Arts Review journal of Ohio Wesleyan University
• About the monument
• Merab Mamardashvili at the Gallery of ISFP

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