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This article discusses the “event” in Merab Mamardashvili’s philosophy. The roots of the post-secular interpretation of the event are traced back to Sören Kierkegaard’s concept of “the moment”, which is posited within a non-classical understanding of temporality and historicity of cognition. The concept of the “event” is also explored in the broader context of non-classical and post-secular Western philosophy of the twentieth century, especially in the works of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Luc Marion, who both belong to the phenomenological tradition. The concept of the event in Mamardashvili’s philosophy is explored as one relative to analogous conceptualizations of the event in a post-secular context.
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It is important to bear in mind that the ‘eventness’ is not to be deemed a mere subjective aspect as opposed to an objective one. As Claude Romano stresses, the individuality of the event is itself its “typical, universal, necessary and “objective” feature” (Romano 2017, p. 67).
I am well aware that I haven’t touched on all cases of post-secular interpretations of the event, as it would require a much more fundamental investigation; for example, no mention here has been made of such a seminal authors as Jacques Derrida and John Caputo.
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Ryndin, D. Merab Mamardashvili: the concept of event and the post-secular situation of the twentieth century. Stud East Eur Thought 71, 259–276 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-019-09330-9
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