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Title: |
A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili |
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Merab Mamardashvili Edited by: Alisa Slaughter, Julia Sushytska Translated by: Alisa Slaughter, Julia Sushytska Foreword by: Caryl Emerson Contributions by: Annie Epelboin, Miglena Nikolchina |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838214595 : 9783838214597 |
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Paperback |
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210x148mm |
| Pages: |
242 |
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.318 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - November 2020 |
| List Price: |
31.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Philosophy |
| Soviet-era philosopher Merab Mamardashvili developed an original and subtle philosophical system distinct from both his orthodox and dissident colleagues. This volume provides English-speaking audiences with a range of his lectures and writings on ancient philosophy, civil society, the European project, and literature. After many decades hiding in plain sight, he emerges as a Soviet thinker who writes in the double-voiced manner of an ideologically surveilled academic and a potent literary and theoretical innovator independent of his context. |
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“Mamardashvili was admired as a ‘modern-day Socrates’ whose lifestyle was characterized by the practice of sustained self-reflection. The theme of his reflection was philosophy itself, which he regarded as a moral imperative to question all values and to contribute the value of non-understanding to the world of total and conventional understanding. In this sense he was a spy for an unknown country, and this beautiful collection presents a short guide to its mysteries.”—Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University
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