A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili

by: Merab Mamardashvili(Author),Alisa Slaughter(Editor),Julia Sushytska(Editor)&0more

Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag

Publication Date: 17 Nov. 2020

Language: English

Print Length: 242 pages

ISBN-10: 3838214595

ISBN-13: 9783838214597

Book Description

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.