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Impossible possibility: event as a real condition of the transcendental in the philosophy of Merab Mamardashvili

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Merab Mamardashvili’s philosophy can be defined as the philosophy of the transcendent event. An event is at once extremely concrete and extremely abstract. It occurs in an act of a special kind: an autonomous act which is not the realization of any pattern of transcendental historicity, is not attached to any teleology, that is, its meaning does not consist in the realization of a goal. It is, plainly speaking, purposeless and therefore indeterminate. However, this is not a variety of actionism, not an outburst of absurdity subverting all order. An act turns out to be the realization of the “ontological abstraction of order” by means of a symbol actualized by the very event of the act. The article examines various aspects of the event from the aesthetic to the meta-historical.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research project 18-011-01234 “The Principle of Transcendentalism in Russian Philosophy (XIX-XX)”.

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Faybyshenko, V. Impossible possibility: event as a real condition of the transcendental in the philosophy of Merab Mamardashvili. Stud East Eur Thought 71, 277–291 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-019-09335-4

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