Rethinking the philosophy of culture: Lithuania and the Western tradition
ENThis chapter is a methodological retrospective on the philosophy of culture as one of the most important modes of Western philosophical discourse. It is also an exposition of a critical attitude towards historicism, as well as of efficiency and its presuppositions. The significance of such problematics (which prima facie belong to intellectual historiography and therefore are thoroughly professional) is now evident. Lithuania faces the need to perceive its own culture and its own political and philosophical consciousness. The realization of the need to identify herself in terms of belonging to a Western philosophical tradition, followed by the creative attempts reflectively to remap against that background her own metaphysical tradition, is in direct proportion to the level of the intellectual and cultural maturity to which it ardently aspires.
