Articles, essays, sketches by N.V. Motroshilova collected in this book are devoted to the philosophy of Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili (1930-1990), a world-class thinker whose philosophizing was organically combined with his personal experience and the study of the experience of the individual, aimed at recreating the "classical courageous soul" and expected both from the philosopher and from any person who cares about the values ​ ​ of freedom, responsibility, critical thought. Mamardashvili's works on Descartes, Kant, Proust, Husserl are analyzed. Mamardashvili's philosophy is seen as an original form of phenomenology, putting the phenomena of memory, love, life and death in the spotlight.