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Topic: Merab Mamardashvili


  
 Eurozine - Articles
Merab was a Francophile, he loved the fine things in life, cheese, good wine, beautiful women who offered him the pleasure of their company, conversations with his friends, and he seemed – no, he definitely was – happy.
Merab opened the door wrapped in a towel, apologised and then explained that he had been talking with Kant all night and woken up in the morning to find out he was bleeding from everywhere – from his ears, mouth and nose.
Merab – I never called him that during his lifetime, he was always Merab Konstantinovich to me, and by using this friendly form of address here I am not posing as his acquaintance or friend; in memoirs or essays practically everyone refers to him in this manner.
www.eurozine.com /articles/2006-06-22-tirons-en.html   (5568 words)

  
 ISFP Gallery of Russian Thinkers: Merab Mamardashvili
The latter, according to Mamardashvili, is not a natural human capability, it not only grows up naturally from the environment, but it appears and report on itself in the metaphysical space of language and human co-operation.
He considers consciousness to be an act of human existence; he said 'the act of thinking is correlated with Being as a transcendental level of human existence' (Arrow of Cognition p.
Mamardashvili M. and Pyatigorski A., Symbol and Cognition.
www.isfp.co.uk /russian_thinkers/merab_mamardashvili.html   (432 words)

  
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About twelve years ago, when Sergei Paradzhanov[1] and Merab Mamardashvili[2] both died in the space of one year, everything was crystal clear in Georgian political life.
At its source we find Merab Mamardashvili who, during the final decade of his life, turned from a Moscow philosopher into a Georgian public figure and a Georgian intellectual.
It was Mamardashvili who started it, though contemporary Georgian liberal discourse is less "metaphysical", more pragmatic, but just as critical towards the current state of affairs in our country as it was ten-twelve years ago.
www.nz-online.ru /index.phtml?aid=5010289   (3161 words)

  
 Sarmatian Review XVII.3: Novodvorskaia
Such activities flew in the face of the favorite slogan of 'defense of human rights.' The dissidence of an entire people (say the Georgians) turned out to be diametrically opposed to the dissidence of an individual who disagreed with his nation (say Merab Mamardashvili).
Zviad was a dissident with respect to the evil empire, Merab Mamardashvili was a dissident with respect to Zviad.
Merab Mamardashvili, of course, did not place his complaints with the Department of Defense or the KGB, but his opinions received wide publicity.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/997/novodvorskaia.html   (3352 words)

  
 Pravda.RU A Monument To Merab Mamardashvili, A Georgian Philosopher, Is Unveiled In Tbilisi. The Sculptor Is Ernst ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pravda.RU A Monument To Merab Mamardashvili, A Georgian Philosopher, Is Unveiled In Tbilisi.
On Saturday, Day of Georgia's Independence, a monument to Merab Mamardashvili, an outstanding Georgian philosopher, was unveiled in Tbilisi.
Speaking at the ceremony, Georgia's president Eduard Shevardnadze noted that Merab Mamardashvili made a great contribution not only to Georgian philosophy.
newsfromrussia.com /culture/2001/05/26/6010.html   (1659 words)

  
 "Citizenship, Democracy, and the Changing World Order" by Scott London
In an interview he told me that active citizenship is an exceedingly difficult concept for the ordinary Russian.
The late Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili used to say, "our man now is not a citizen.
He does not have the muscles to live in a society," and Zhurkin agreed.
www.scottlondon.com /articles/kf3.html   (2382 words)

  
 PostSoviet Russian Philosophy
After Stalin's death works began to appear on thinkers such as the Slavophiles, placed within a Marxist schema of interpretation, and even Marxism itself began to be a subject of cautious intellectual debate.
Some independent thinkers, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Merab Mamardashvili, Aleksei Losev, and Valentin Asmus, survived: their work has now become known.
In the last euphoric years of glasnost the official Soviet philosophical organ Voprosy filosofii took the lead in reacquainting Russians with their philosophical heritage by publishing a series of volumes on Russian thought, including the works of previously banned philosophers.
oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/criminal.justice/philruss01.htm   (1791 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: News: Gallery of Russian Thinkers - papers wanted
This is more difficult than selecting German or French thinkers, because there are more than 130 nationalities, which live in the territory of Russian Federation.
Many Russian intellectuals were not Russians by birth: Roman Jaconson, Lev Shestov, Yuri Lotman were Jewish, Merab Mamardashvili was Georgian.
To live in Russia does not mean to be Russian.
www.sras.org /news2.phtml?m=495   (1086 words)

  
 PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS Issue 109
Currently on the site are photographs, biographies and bibliographies of Lev Shestov, Merab Mamardashvili and Yury Lotman.
Dmitry Olshansky is planning to include material on Mikhail Bakhtin, Pavel Florensky, Roman Jacobson, Alexandre Kojeve, Gustav Shpet, Vladimir Solovyov and Nikolay Trubetskoy.
Moscow, 1996; Mamardashvili M. and Pyatigorski A., Symbol and Cognition.
www.philosophypathways.com /newsletter/issue109.html   (5700 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Pagan Russia saw a 100-percent literacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There were no property stratification at that time, and every child could afford primary education, irrespective of his financial or social position.
A MONUMENT TO MERAB MAMARDASHVILI, A GEORGIAN PHILOSOPHER, IS UNVEILED IN TBILISI.
This work produced by the world-famous sculptor Ernst Neizvestny is placed in Rustaveli Prospekt in the centre of the Georgian capital.
newsfromrussia.com /culture/2001/05/26/5980.html   (1468 words)

  
 Contents 6-2005
The 75th birthday and 15th death-day of M.K. Mamardashvili
To make the state environmental policy more effective.
Is it possible to live long and die being young?
www.ecolife.ru /news/content-6-2005e.shtml   (157 words)

  
 10 - Reform in China, Indochina and the former USSR, by Al L. Sargis>
Hence, to reject any RelementS of RsocialismS means to replace the entire fabric of traits with its opposite, no other viable option exists in their political universe.
The late non-Marxist Georgian philosopher, Merab Mamardashvili traced this Reverything-nothingS view to the Russian Orthodox religious cultureUs obsession with an ideal of the perfect human, that turns into its opposite when not realized: Either everything or absolutely nothing.
Since it is impossible to get everything, they are left with nothing.I EverythingI they achieve remains forever imperfect, finite and concrete.
www.nathannewman.org /EDIN/.left/CoC/.dandi/.di6/.di6.10.html   (1921 words)

  
 A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL THINKING IN THE XX CENTURY GEORGIAN PHILOSOPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Besides Husserl, the review concerns the problems of Hartman's epistemology and existential ontology.
I consider the following Georgian philosophers: Kote Bakradze, Angia Bochorishvili, Zurab kakabadze, Guram Tevzadze, Givi Margvelashvili and Merab Mamardashvili.
This brief review of phenomenological studies of Georgian authors reveals once again an enormous impact of Husserl's conception, which, in spite of the obstacles observed in our soviet history, found a deep reffection in the Georgian philosophical school.
www.crvp.org /conf/Istanbul/abstracts/Dolidze.htm   (107 words)

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