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Leonidas Donskis (born on August 13, 1962 in Klaipeda
Klaipeda

Klaipeda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Curonian Lagoon where it flows into the Baltic Sea. As Lithuania's only seaport, it has ferry terminal connections to Sweden and Germany....
, Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
) is a Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n philosopher, essayist, cultural critic and activist.

He currently serves as Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Director of the Political Science and Diplomacy School at Vytautas Magnus University
Vytautas Magnus University

Vytautas Magnus University is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania. The university was founded in 1922 during the Polish?Lithuanian War as an alternate national university....
, and Docent at the Helsinki University. Donskis hosts TV discussions show "Be pykcio".








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Leonidas Donskis (born on August 13, 1962 in Klaipeda
Klaipeda

Klaipeda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Curonian Lagoon where it flows into the Baltic Sea. As Lithuania's only seaport, it has ferry terminal connections to Sweden and Germany....
, Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
) is a Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n philosopher, essayist, cultural critic and activist.

He currently serves as Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Director of the Political Science and Diplomacy School at Vytautas Magnus University
Vytautas Magnus University

Vytautas Magnus University is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania. The university was founded in 1922 during the Polish?Lithuanian War as an alternate national university....
, and Docent at the Helsinki University. Donskis hosts TV discussions show "Be pykcio".

Bibliography

Donskis has published 8 books in Lithuanian
Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognised as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad....
 and English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 languages.

  • (1993) Moderniosios kulturos filosofijos metmenys: Mokymo priemone univ. humanit. fak. studentams. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopediju leidykla;
  • (1994) Moderniosios samones konfiguracijos: Kultura tarp mito ir diskurso. Vilnius: Baltos lankos
    Baltos lankos

    Baltos lankos , founded in 1992, is a Lithuania-based publishing house specializing in the humanities and literature. It is one of Lithuania's best-known publishers, and has printed the works of Tomas Venclova and Jonas Mekas, along with its own periodical....
    ;
  • (1996) Tarp vaizduotes ir realybes: ideologija ir utopija nudienos civilizacijos teorijoje. Vilnius: Baltos lankos;
  • (1997) Tarp Karlailio ir Klaipedos: visuomenes ir kulturos kritikos etiudai. Klaipeda: Klaipedos universiteto leidykla;
  • (2003) Forms of Hatred. The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi;
  • (2004) Pilietine visuomene ir jos priešai: autoritetas, tiesa ir viešoji erdve XXI amžiaus pradžios Lietuvoje. Vilnius: Versus aureus;
  • (2005) Tapatybe ir laisve: trys intelektualiniai portretai. Vilnius: Versus aureus.
  • (2005) Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal. Modern Lithuania and East-Central European Moral Imagination. With a preface by Zygmunt Bauman. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.


Donskis is the editor of two book series: