Merab Mamardashvili’s Cultural Understanding: Fascism or the Spinal Cord?
The article addresses the Georgian philosopher’s Merab Mamardashvili’s statement that “ fascism is a triumph of culture” and discusses Mamardashvili’s cultural understanding. The work contrasts two seemingly contradictory characterizations of culture provided by the Georgian philosopher himself – on one hand he equalizes the culture with fascism and Nazism, but on the other hand compares it to the spinal cord that serves as a necessary basis for ensuring of humanity. The article raises an issue of a fine and not fully detectable boundary between the place where the culture is a man-made and humanity forming mechanism, and where it becomes something un-topicalized – a bondage.