Phenomenology in Lithuania

Arūnas Sverdiolas

Tomáš Kačerauskas

pp. 31-41

in: Tomáš Kačerauskas (ed), Lithuania, Studies in East European Thought 61 (1), 2009.

Abstract

The article deals with phenomenology in Lithuania. The main thesis of the article is this: phenomenology is a living tradition in need of both development and interpretation. The minor thesis follows from the main one: the Western phenomenological tradition and Lithuanian philosophy interact and develop in tandem with one another. According to the authors, the contact between poetics and philosophy is the dominant form of phenomenology in Lithuania. The phenomenological tradition is treated as creative and living philosophical thought.