Tengiz Iremadze

Tengiz Iremadze (, ; born March 9, 1973) is a Georgian philosopher. His major fields of study are philosophy of mind (theory of intellect), Christian philosophy, philosophy of war and peace, sociology of terror, sociology of media and philosophical urbanism. He pays special attention to medieval, early modern and contemporary Georgian and European philosophy.

Tengiz Iremadze`s work is dedicated to ancient philosophy (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle) and to the late antiquity (Proclus), also to medieval Georgian and Latin Christian thought (Ioane Petritsi, Theodoric of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg). In addition, he translated the works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Walter Benjamin, Hans Blumenberg, André Glucksmann and Ernst Meister into the Georgian language. He is the editor of the Georgian translations of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Wilson, Benjamin Rush, John Dewey, Henri Bergson, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt and Niklas Luhmann, etc.

Biography

Tengiz Iremadze studied philosophy and sociology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University from 1993 to 1998. From his academic teachers especially noteworthy is Georgian philosopher Guram Tevzadze. In his diploma thesis Tengiz Iremadze gave an interpretation of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".

In 2003, he earned his PhD degree in philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum under the supervision of German philosopher Burkhard Mojsisch (1944-2015). His PhD thesis was "Conceptions of Thought in Neo-Platonism. The Reception of Proclus' Philosophy in Medieval German and Georgian Thought. Dietrich of Freiberg - Berthold of Moosburg - Ioane Petritsi."

Work Intercultural context of the history of philosophy

Already in his PhD thesis (2003), Tengiz Iremadze paid special attention to the concept of intercultural philosophy. In this work he analyzed the history of the reception of one of the central concepts (theory of thought) of outstanding thinker of late antiquity Proclus in medieval Latin West. At the same time in his study he incorporated old Georgian texts referring to the "Elements of Theology" (Ioane Petritsi's translation and commentary of this work of Proclus).

Caucasian philosophy

Tengiz Iremadze developed this direction of research in his work "Philosophy at the Crossroads of Epochs and Cultures" (2013). In this work Tengiz Iremadze combined historical studies and systematic analysis and developed methodological preconditions and bases of "Caucasian Philosophy". This work can be divided into three parts: in the introductory reflections Tengiz Iremadze develops methodological grounds and discusses the key concept of the "crossroad" from different perspectives. In the first part of the work is given the phenomenology of the "crossroad" from the important perspective of intercultural thought, in the second part he discusses basic philosophical concepts [Being/Beings, Truth/Interpretation, Reception/Transformation, Individualism/Intersubjectivity, Knowledge/Wisdom], which have been not only important throughout the history of philosophy, but will also have a great value in the future. In the third part Iremadze discusses new concepts of intercultural thought. The concept of "crossroad" also plays important role here, because it underpins new intercultural philosophical theory.

Books Konzeptionen des Denkens im Neuplatonismus. Zur Rezeption der Proklischen Philosophie im deutschen und georgischen Mittelalter: Dietrich von Freiberg – Berthold von Moosburg – Joane Petrizi (Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, Bd. 40), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: B. R. Grüner Publishing Company, 2004. . Friedrich Nietzsche: "Thus Spoke Zarathustra": Text and Context, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2006. Der Aletheiologische Realismus. Schalwa Nuzubidse und seine neuen Denkansätze, Tbilisi: Verlag "Nekeri", 2008. . Walter Benjamin. Life – Work – Actuality, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2008. (Co-author) What is Freedom? Great Thinkers on the Essence of Freedom. Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Herbert Spencer, Erich Fromm, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", First edition, 2010, ; Second edition - 2013: Philosophy at the Crossroads of Epochs and Cultures, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2013. (Co-author) Early Modern Georgian Philosophy and its Major Representatives (second half of the 18th century – second half of the 19th century), Scientific editor: T. Iremadze, Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2014. (Co-author) Philosophical Urbanism, editor: T. Iremadze, H. Schneider, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2014. Pythagoras in the Context of Caucasian Philosophy, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2014. Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy and Perspectives of Understanding It, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2015. Religion - Tolerance - State, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2016. Medieval Georgian Philosophy. A Systematic Outline to Understand its Specifics. Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2019. Early Modern Georgian Philosophy. A Systematic Outline to Understand its Specifics. Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2020. Ioane Petritsi`s Philosophy. Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2021. Medieval philosophy. Tbilisi: Pavoriti Stili, 2022.

Shalva Nutsubidze`s Philosophy. A brief systematic-critical analysis, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2023.

Post-Humanistic Philosophy. Mutually Intersecting Contexts of the Crisis and Destruction of the Great Ideas, Tbilisi: Pavorti Stili, 2023. Philosophical Theology In Medieval Georgia, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2024. Philosophical Theology in Early Modern Georgia, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2025. The Christian Theology of David IV the Builder, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2025. Bishop Gabriel Kikodze. Philosophy and Psychology, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2025. Solomon Dodashvili`s Philosophy. A Brief Systematic Analysis, Tbilisi: Publishing House "Nekeri", 2025.