Most of Giwi Margwelaschwili’s philosophical works were written during his years with the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 1971 to 1991. They appeared in Russian, published in five volumes during 1999 and 2000 by Caucasian House, the Centre for Cultural Relations. The editorial team was headed by Badri Sharvadze.

After his return to Berlin, Giwi Margwelaschwili penned his philosophical writings in German, but they have not yet been published. These include “Thematicity and Knowledge”, “Theology as Ontothematology”, “Community and Society” and “The Biology of Ancient and Modern Philosophy”.

The five volumes published in Russian contain the following papers:

Volume 1

• Manifestations of non-thematic time structure in short narratives
• Time as the basis for existentialogical knowledge theory
• Narrative time and existential time
• The sociological theories of Herbert Marcuse and the problem of dialectical multidimensionality

Volume 2

• The phenomenological foundations of Martin Heidegger’s aesthetics
• The problem of the cultural world in the existential ontology of Martin Heidegger
• The axiological significance of the distinction between the existential and the categorical in the ontological teachings of Martin Heidegger
• The concept of finality in the existential ontology of Martin Heidegger and the layered ontology of Nikolai Hartmann

Volume 3

• The Significance of Universal Time in the Early Stages of the Narrative Field in German Fairy Tales
• Time as a structural principle in Shakespeare’s drama Rilke and phenomenology
• Existential ontological themes in Musil’s “The Man Without Qualities”
• The concept of communication in the philosophies of Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger
• Existential valence in the material concept of a priori in the phenomenological personalism of Max Scheler (Part I)

Volume 4

• Existential valence in the material concept of a priori in the phenomenological personalism of Max Scheler (Parts II - IV)

Volume 5

• The problem with reasons in phenomenological philosophy
• The phenomenological code of consciousness
• Phenomenologicity and ontotextuality in sophistics