Merab Mamardashvili (1930-1990) was a Georgian philosopher, Doctor of Sciences, Professor. He was born in Gori (Eastern Georgia). In 1955 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University. In 1955-1987 he was a Deputy Editor of the scientific journal "Voprosi Filosofii" ("Questions of Philosophy"), a Professor of the Moscow State University and a Senior Research Fellow of the Moscow Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science. In 1987-1990 Mamardashvili was head of the Department of the Institute of Philosophy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and Professor of the Tbilisi State University.

In May 2001 a monument to him was unveiled in Tbilisi.

Main works of Merab Mamardashvili

• Forms and Contents of Thinking (1968)
• The Problem of Objective Method in Psychology (1977)
• Classic and Non-classic Ideals of Rationality (1984)
• Phenomenology and its Role in Contemporary Philosophy (1988)
• Conscious and the Philosophical Calling (1988)
• Cartesian Thoughts (1999)

External Links

• Interview from 1989 (http://car.owu.edu/Vol.%202%20No.%203.htm)
• About the monument (http://english.pravda.ru/culture/2001/05/26/6010.html)