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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004758759-002

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This book offers a systematic reconstruction and critical analysis of Merab Mamardashvili’s philosophy, situating it within the broader debates of twentieth-century Continental thought. It argues that Mamardashvili developed an original theoretical framework through a rigorous engagement with Hegel and Marx, moving beyond the simplifications imposed by official Soviet Marxism. Central to this framework is a distinctive topological approach to epistemology, according to which acts of understanding are structured by a pre-predicational space that manifests itself through its effects in predicational discourse.

The study explores Mamardashvili’s concept of the foundational ground as unstable and enacted in each singular act of thought, blurring the boundaries between epistemology and ontology. His adaptation of Marx’s notion of transverted form and his extension of topological reasoning illuminate how phenomena embody and conceal the structural relations that condition them. By reconstructing these concepts from his early readings of Hegel and Marx to his mature reflections on consciousness, subjectivity, truth, and freedom, the book clarifies the coherence and scope of his project.

The final chapters place Mamardashvili in dialogue with Derrida and Deleuze, demonstrating structural resonances between his understanding of foundation, différance, and immanence. While his thought intersects with debates on difference, it retains a distinctive realist inflection and a pronounced ethical dimension grounded in individual responsibility. It is precisely this combination – a rigorous thinking of groundlessness that nonetheless insists on the irreducibility of the thinking subject – that defines his originality and secures his relevance for contemporary discussions on foundation, difference, and the conditions of thought.

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Thinking on Unstable Ground: The Topology of Sense in Merab Mamardashvili

丛编： Contemporary Russian Philosophy, 卷： 11

ISBN:: 9789004758759

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 16 Jun 2026

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  - Continental Philosophy
  - Epistemology & Metaphysics

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