Kakabadze Zurab

Zurab Kakabadze (b. March 13, 1926, Tbilisi – d. February 15, 1982, Tbilisi), philosopher, researcher of contemporary Western philosophy and culture, Doctor of Philosophy (1968), professor (1970). He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Tbilisi State University (1950). He was the head of the Department of Aesthetics of the Institute of Philosophy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1967–1982).

Kakabadze researched fundamental problems of ethics, aesthetics, Western philosophy and culture. He researched these issues with a deep analysis of E. Husserl's philosophy, showing the positive and negative sides of phenomenological doctrine. This issue is covered in the work The Problem of Existential Crisis and — E. Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology, which received wide recognition.

Kakabadze's most significant work is Man as a Philosophical Problem (1970; published in Japan in 1971). In his numerous writings, which deal with aesthetic phenomena in particular, Kakabadze raised the problems of modern man and his challenges. His analysis also showed the complex process of the development of Western culture.

Kakabadze's last essays were mainly devoted to the complex problem of the relationship between nature and man.

Kakabadze’s works are translated into foreign languages.

 

Literary works: წერილები, თბ., 1972; ხელოვნება, ფილოსოფია, ცხოვრება, თბ., 1979; რჩეული ფილოსოფიური შრომები, ბათ., 2012; ფილოსოფია და ცხოვრება, ბათ., 2012; Проблема экзистенциального кризиса и трансцендентальная феноменология Э. Гуссерля, Тб., 1966 (1985 – ქართ. ენაზე); Человек, как философская проблема, Тб., 1970 (1971 – იაპონურ ენაზე); Феномен искусства, Тб., 1980.

 

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