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The paper reconstructs the key epistemological ideas of Merab Mamardashvili which form the bridge between his philosophy and phenomenology. He advances four key concepts in his sketch of a natural historical epistemology: the geometry of causal experience, the belonging to a certain (irreversible) time, the chronotype of a subject, and the ‘elaboration’ of the mind by consciousness. The concept of “fruitful tautology” leads Mamardashvili to a new aesthetics of thinking. The semiotics, rightfully included in Russian social sciences, assumes that the symbol is a certain universal first element of psychic reality.
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Litvin, T.V. An outline of the natural-historical epistemology of Merab Mamardashvili and the possibility of its phenomenological interpretation. Stud East Eur Thought 71, 293–303 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-019-09343-4
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