What is classical and non-classical knowledge?

Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover

pp. 205-238

in: Merab Mamardašvili, Studies in East European Thought 58 (3), 2006.

Abstract

Mamardašvili's "classical' paradigm of knowledge is seen to be minimally based on extrapolations from Descartes' classical philosophy to which Mamardašvili attributes features that rather anticipate his own post-classical ontology. The latter is oriented towards the primacy of perception as a subjective process, in which the self-conscious subject constructs the world, not as illusion, but as a "picture' or "model' (Wittgenstein's Bild). By examining Mamardašvili's definition of the "phenomenon' against the␣background of Husserl's "reduction', Wittgenstein's "object' and the Freudian and post-structuralist psychoanalytic model of subjectivity, the paper arrives at the inference that Mamardašvili is essentially a post-Structuralist thinker who appropriates concepts from various critical and philosophical disciplines to construct his own multi-disciplinary theory of consciousness and perception.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Mamardašvili Merab