I will present the research project Writing and Thinking at the Margins, funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation. In the project, together with colleagues from Södertörn University, we examine how philosophers in post-war Eastern Europe, responded to the problem of totalitarianism in a dialogue with post-war Western European thinkers, while developing strategies to oppose totalizing thought. A prominent philosopher who became more and more marginalized over time was Merab Mamardashvili, born in Georgia, but using Russian as his professional language. In this seminar, I will trace how Mamardahsvili developed a means of thinking through oral lectures that was anti-systematic and circled around what he called the aesthetics of thought or the topology of thinking. I will also ask what this can tell us about the freedom of thought today in relation to threats other than those of the former Communist system.
 
Tora Lane is associate professor and senior lecturer in Russian at the Slavic department, Stockholm University. A specialist in the works of Marina Tsvetaeva and Andrei Platonov, her research interests include Russian literary modernism, Soviet culture, and post-Soviet literature. Spanning several academic fields, she explores contact and parallels between Russian literature, culture and theory and European literary, cultural and philosophical traditions. Her publications include “Post-Communist Memory in the Negative (Baltic Worlds # 4, 2023), the chapter “Memory Politics and the ‘Politics of Memory’” in The Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice: Failures, Legacies, and the Future of Revolution (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), the monograph Andrey Platonov: The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution (Rowman &Littlefield, 2018).

Språk: Engelska

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Sanna

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