Vladimer Luarsabishvili (ed.): Rethinking Mamardashvili: Philosophical Perspectives, Analytical Insights. Leiden: Brill 2022.

 Vladimer Luarsabishvili (ed.): Rethinking Mamardashvili: Philosophical Perspectives, Analytical Insights. Leiden: Brill 2022. ISBN: 978-90-04-51763-9

This book intends to present Mamardashvili’s philosophical perspective on modern society by exemplifying in different ways its distinctive contribution to the greater philosophical landscape. The authors aim to define both Mamardashvili’s place in the history of philosophy—among the currents of twentieth-century European thought and, in particular, phenomenology—and his relations with authors like Hegel, Proust, Deleuze, and Wittgenstein, while identifying the basic methodological instruments and substantive concepts of his thought—language, migration, citizenship, or “the freedom of complaint.” The volume will be useful both for preparatory courses (by supplying an introduction to Mamardashvili’s thought and forming the key necessary concepts) and for advanced research exigencies, allowing a professional audience to discover the remarkable insights of Mamardashvili’s philosophy.

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Merab Mamardashvili Today and Tomorrow

 Vladimer Luarsabishvili

Mamardashvili and Phenomenology

 Daniel Regnier

The Roots of Mamardashvili’s Topological Approach

Normativity and the Problem of Form in Hegel

 Elisa Pontini

Gathering the In-Between

Merab Mamardashvili’s Way through Proust

 Julia Sushytska and Alisa Slaughter

Boundary Experience and “Transcendentals” in the Philosophy of Мerab Mamardashvili and Ludwig Wittgenstein

 Diana Gasparyan

“The Freedom of Complaint”

Mamardashvili on Georgian Society at the End of the 1980s

 Vladimer Luarsabishvili

A Problem of Language

Merab Mamardashvili and Dmitry Mamuliya in Philosophical-Cinematic Dialogue

 Alyssa Deblasio

The Political Thought of Merab Mamardashvili

 Mikhail Nemtsev and Victoria Faybyshenko

Between Althusser and Arendt

Mamardashvili and the Political

 Evert van der Zweerde

Vladimer Luarsabishvili, Ph.D., is a Professor of the School of Politics and Diplomacy at New Vision University (Tbilisi). He is the author of Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research (Routledge, 2022) and has founded the book series Rethinking Society. Individuals, Culture and Migration (NVU Press, 2020).