Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, describes Mamardashvili’s significance as “a Russian-Georgian thinker using continental philosophy to explicate consciousness as explored by a great modern novelist. A tour-de-force of the services literature and philosophy can render to each other.”In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Caryl Emerson writes: “Merab Mamardashvili was one of the Soviet Union’s most influential thinkers in the fields of phenomenology and philosophy of consciousness.”Evert van der Zweerde, a philosopher from Radbound University, writes:“Merab Mamardashvili is beyond any doubt one of the most original and inspiring philosophers from the ‘Soviet world’.... Mamardashvili was ‘unorthodox’ and original not only in comparison to his Soviet colleagues, but also within the context of philosophy worldwide. He belongs to the broad and diverse category of thinkers to which also belong Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and, arguably, the later Ludwig Wittgenstein. In that ‘unorthodox’ league, he certainly belongs to the ‘top 10’ of original philosophers of the 20th [century] .... His dialogue with past thinkers is always grounded in thorough familiarity with the original writings and is a permanent stimulus to return to them as thinkers. While some of his works have been translated into German, French, and Italian, very little exists in English translation, and it will be a great contribution to ‘philosophy worldwide’ if more of his work becomes available in reliable English translations.”

Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, describes Mamardashvili’s significance as “a Russian-Georgian thinker using continental philosophy to explicate consciousness as explored by a great modern novelist. A tour-de-force of the services literature and philosophy can render to each other.”In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Caryl Emerson writes: “Merab Mamardashvili was one of the Soviet Union’s most influential thinkers in the fields of phenomenology and philosophy of consciousness.”Evert van der Zweerde, a philosopher from Radbound University, writes:“Merab Mamardashvili is beyond any doubt one of the most original and inspiring philosophers from the ‘Soviet world’.... Mamardashvili was ‘unorthodox’ and original not only in comparison to his Soviet colleagues, but also within the context of philosophy worldwide. He belongs to the broad and diverse category of thinkers to which also belong Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and, arguably, the later Ludwig Wittgenstein. In that ‘unorthodox’ league, he certainly belongs to the ‘top 10’ of original philosophers of the 20th [century] .... His dialogue with past thinkers is always grounded in thorough familiarity with the original writings and is a permanent stimulus to return to them as thinkers. While some of his works have been translated into German, French, and Italian, very little exists in English translation, and it will be a great contribution to ‘philosophy worldwide’ if more of his work becomes available in reliable English translations.”

Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, describes Mamardashvili’s significance as “a Russian-Georgian thinker using continental philosophy to explicate consciousness as explored by a great modern novelist. A tour-de-force of the services literature and philosophy can render to each other.”In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Caryl Emerson writes: “Merab Mamardashvili was one of the Soviet Union’s most influential thinkers in the fields of phenomenology and philosophy of consciousness.”Evert van der Zweerde, a philosopher from Radbound University, writes:“Merab Mamardashvili is beyond any doubt one of the most original and inspiring philosophers from the ‘Soviet world’.... Mamardashvili was ‘unorthodox’ and original not only in comparison to his Soviet colleagues, but also within the context of philosophy worldwide. He belongs to the broad and diverse category of thinkers to which also belong Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and, arguably, the later Ludwig Wittgenstein. In that ‘unorthodox’ league, he certainly belongs to the ‘top 10’ of original philosophers of the 20th [century] .... His dialogue with past thinkers is always grounded in thorough familiarity with the original writings and is a permanent stimulus to return to them as thinkers. While some of his works have been translated into German, French, and Italian, very little exists in English translation, and it will be a great contribution to ‘philosophy worldwide’ if more of his work becomes available in reliable English translations.”