Merab Mamardashvili: Text Creation As An Existential And Ontological Act

Abstract

The research subject is those methods of reading a literary or philosophical text that Mamardashvili proposes. When we perceive the content of some fragments of the readable text as something to our own depth, we enter the path of interpretations, at the same time turning from a simple consumer of literature into its co-author. Then the book transforms into a kind of spiritual instrument, using which we can "unwind" impressions incomprehensible at first glance, and this, in turn, allows us to get out of the darkness of our perceptions, our life and own "I", makes it possible to reveal our true " I ", "to reunite," as Mamardashvili says, "with the non-verbal root of our irreplaceable personal vision, through which only we grow into real being and unity with other people." The basic methodological principle of the paper is to follow the path of creating a text that Mamardashvili speaks of, and which we have tried to present in the research. Scientific novelty includes an attempt to determine the place and role of the textological concept of Mamardashvili in the problem field of Russian philosophy of the 19-20th centuries. Passing through the points of inner freedom achieved when interpreting at first glance unclear impressions, and connecting them, the authors of great works seem to draw the path of their life, or the line of their individual history.