Monday, November 17th, 2008 A Litmus Test of the Century and its Social and Moral Order: Lithuania in the Twentieth Century

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Monday, November 17, 20082:00PM - 4:00PMSeminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Description

Leonidas Donskis is a philosopher, historian of ideas, political commentator, and critic. He graduated from Lithuanian State Conservatoire (now Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater), majoring in philology and theater, and then pursued his graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. Having received his first doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vilnius, he later earned his second doctorate in social and moral philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
His main scholarly interests lie in philosophy of history, philosophy of culture, philosophy of literature, philosophy of the social sciences, civilization theory, political theory, history of ideas, and studies in Central and East European thought.


Speakers

Leonidas Donskis
Director of the Political Science and Diplomacy School at Vytautas Magnus University


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