Editor’s introduction: Mapping inter-war Lithuanian philosophy

ENA close examination of the emergence of modern Lithuanian philosophy may be most instructive when studying the intellectual and moral sensibilities of Eastern Europe. At the same time, a study of modern Lithuanian theoretical thought may reveal a number of the hitherto concealed nuances of the multicultural and multifaceted character of modern Lithuania. Contrary to the widely accepted, albeit loosely argued, opinion of not a few western scholars of the Baltic countries, viz., that Lithuania came into modern political existence as a homogenous entity that had nothing to do with its multiethnic and multicultural past, an examination of twentieth-century Lithuanian philosophy may prove the opposite. [Extract, p. xi].