Vytautas Kavolis as aocial and cultural critic
ENThis study is an analytical attempt at mapping Vytautas Kavolis's theoretical thought by tracing it within the framework of his social and cultural criticism. It is not so easy to provide such a discursive map, since Kavolis's theoretical legacy may well be referred to as his silent intellectual and moral autobiography. Therefore, it increases the responsibility of the author who comes to examine such an intimate and deeply personal thing as another scholar's autobiography. Every statement and passage of Kavolis's thought, every formulation or sequence of his working hypotheses — all are permeated by Kavolis's existential and social experiences. This is why the theoretical reconstruction of Kavolis's social and cultural theories, if reduced to the examination of his statements' formal logical structure or of the context and analytical organization of his thought, would enable us to merely employ a scientific jargon by pointing out those paradigms of sociological thought that have been accepted and then further elaborated by Kavolis.
