Lasha Matiashvili is a faculty member in the Social and Political Sciences at Tbilisi State University. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Tbilisi State University in 2019. In 2024, he was a junior fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, hosted by Dr. Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen. In 2022, he served as a visiting researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, where he conducted a project supported by a research grant from the University of Oxford and the John Templeton Foundation. In the same year, he received the Hildebrand Project Research Grant to study the nature and structure of community in the philosophies of Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla. In 2021, he was a joint Rustaveli-DAAD research fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities at the University of Cologne. Currently, he holds a grant for early career researchers from the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, focusing on phenomenological qualitative research of pre-reflective bodily experiences in disability team sports. His work spans the intersection of phenomenological philosophy, qualitative research methods, social ontology, disability studies, and intellectual history.
Selected Publications:
- Matiashvili, L. (forthcoming). The Phenomenology of Liturgical We.
- Matiashvili, L. (forthcoming). Phenomenology of Acoustic Deixis: Signs of a Transformed Lifeworld in Disability. In: Dzwiza-Ohlsen, E. N. (Ed.), Deixis – Zeigen – Pointing. Ansätze zu einer phänomenologischen Anthropologie, WBG
- Matiashvili, L. (2023). I Through Thou, and We Through I: Dietrich Von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla on the Personal Foundation of Community. Metaphilosophy, Volume 54, Issue 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.1264
- Matiashvili, L. (2022). Collective Affective Intentionality and Phenomenology of Togetherness, Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press Vol. XIV, No. 2, 330-351.
- Matiashvili, L. (2021). Andrey Platonov and Biopolitics of Failed Communism. London Academic Publishing, Brolly. Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. 4. No 1. 7-28.
- Matiashvili, L. (2020): The Deconstructive and Archeological Paradigms of Voice. Neoplatonism: The Doctrine and its Reception, Ilia State University Press. 179-211. (In Georgian)