ABSTRACT
Addressing an international symposium on European identity, Merab Mamardashvili – one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century still relatively unknown to the Englishspeaking world – asserted that outside of Europe it is possible to acquire a vantage point that would actually yield a more profound understanding of the West itself. From it one can discern the truths that are no longer visible from the “inside,” because too self-evident. 1
