The aesthetic import of the act of knowledge and its European roots in Merab Mamardašvili

Elisa Pontini

pp. 161-178

What Mamardašvili meant by "process of knowledge" is not an all-embracing vision of reality accomplished "once-and-for-all"; it is not a step by step procedure of deduction; rather it is an anti-dialectical reconstruction of a constellation of signs put together over and over again by the subject by an act of non-premeditated genius. It is a kind of aesthetic act that makes the sense appear, like a vertical cut in the sequential line of space and time.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11212-006-9001-8

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Pontini, E. (2006). The aesthetic import of the act of knowledge and its European roots in Merab Mamardašvili. Studies in East European Thought 58 (3), pp. 161-178.

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