Monographies
Yes, but... non- political considerations about politics
Original title: "Taip, bet... Nepolitologiniai svarstymai apie politiką" - 2007 m. (Read more...)
Without anger: a map of one year of thoughts
Original title: "Be pykčio: vienerių metų minčių žemėlapis" - 2006 m.Leonidas Donskis – philosopher, political and cultural commentator, publicist, co-author and presenter of TV show “Without Anger” - wrote this book as a collection of analytical essays about Lithuanian political life, the changes of the European identity and the most important cultural events, combined with critical insights about political culture and the condition of society. (Read more...)
Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal: Modern Lithuania and East-Central European Moral Imagination
Loyalty and betrayal are among key concepts of the ethic of nationalism. Marriage of state and culture, which seems the essence of the congruence between political power structure and collective identity, usually offers a simple explanation of loyalty and dissent. (Read more...)
Identity and Freedom: three intellectual portraits
Original title: "Tapatybė ir laisvė: trys intelektualiniai portretai" - 2005 m.Leonidas Donskis` Identity and Freedom: three intellectual portraits was written in English and published by one of the most famous academic publishers in London and New York, Routledge. (Read more...)
Civil society and its enemies: authority, truth and public space in Lithuania in the beginning of the 20th century
Original title:"L. Pilietinė visuomenė ir jos priešai: autoritetas, tiesa ir viešoji erdvė XXI amžiaus pradžios Lietuvoje - 2004 m."A book about the political and moral crisis in Lithuania, the main historical changes and attitude of the civil society written by Leonidas Donskis – philosopher, critic of culture, essayist and professor of the Vytautas Magnus University. (Read more...)
Forms of Hatred: The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature
This book analyzes such symbolic designs of the modern troubled imagination as the conspiracy theory of society, deterministic concepts of identity and order, antisemitic obsessions, self-hatred, and the myth of the loss of roots. It offers, among other things, the unique East-Central European materials incorporated in a broad, imaginative synthesis and critique of contemporary social analysis. (Read more...)
Identity and Freedom: Mapping Nationalism and Social Criticism in Twentieth-Century Lithuania
Identity and Freedom provides a discursive map of Lithuanian liberal nationalism by focusing on the work of three eminent Lithuanian émigré scholars - Vytautas Kavolis, Aleksandras Shtromas and Tomas Venclova. Presenting these critics of society - and also analysing the significant impact of such writers as George Orwell and Czeslaw Milosz on Lithuanian political and cultural dissent - the book elaborates their three models of liberal nationalism as social criticism. Incorporating material which has so far only been available in Lithuanian, Polish and Russian sources, this book will be invaluable for anyone interested in Central and East European politics, culture and society. (Read more...)
The End of Ideology and Utopia? Moral Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Twentieth Century
Are ideology and utopia exhausted and dead on the threshold of the twenty-first century? According to Leonidas Donskis, they survive in the modern social sciences and humanities as well as in various critiques of society and culture, as the inner spring of the cultural and moral imaginations. (Read more...)
