Original title: "Lietuviškasis liberalizmas II" (in Lithuanian) (Read more...)
Original title: "Mažoji Europa: esteto žemėlapis" (in Lithuanian) (Read more...)
Original title: "Belletristik der Macht: Von Machiavelli bis Milan Kundera" (in German) (Read more...)
"Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging". New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 216 p. (Read more...)
Original title: "Galia, vaizduotė ir atmintis: politikos ir literatūros etiudai" (in Lithuanian) (Read more...)
"Niccolò Machiavelli: History, Power, and Virtue“. Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York , 2011. 114 pp. ISBN 978 90 420 3277 4 (Read more...)
Original title: "Збентежена ідентичність і сучасний світ" (in Ukrainian) (Read more...)
Original title: "Individualybės ir bendrystės galios: rinktinė jaunajam skaitytojui" (in Lithuanian) (Read more...)
Original title: "Armastus, vihkamine ja vastuseis" (in Estonian) (Read more...)
Original title: "Mažasis patirties žemėlapis: mintys ir aforizmai“. Vilnius: Versus aureus, 2010. 112 p.: illustrations. ISBN 978-9955-34-266-3 An aphorism means at the same time a space for dialogue - an open and unfinished thought which permanently asks the reader to come back to it, to go beyond ellipsis and reticence, because the author leaves them as an invitation to get back to his thoughts from time to time. (Read more...)
Original tite: Pilietinis ugdymas: „Bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų 10 klasės vadovėlis “. Vilnius:Versus aureus, 2010. 256 p. ISBN 9955-34-239-0 I wrote this textbook thinking about Gustave Flaubert`s, a French writer`s, novel Sentimental Education (1896). Civil education is impossible without thought or action, neither without feelings or their nurturing. (Read more...)
„99 Baltic Stories“ written by Leonidas Donskis are 99 historical and cultural associations, coupled with memories of Klaipeda`s residents. These are subjects about the Baltic region, outstanding personalities and their contribution to the culture of the modern world. (Read more...)
This volume offers the insights of Baltic and Western European scholars into present socioeconomic, migration, identity, gender, race, media, and historical memory issues in the Baltic States. The book attempts to show the intensity and depth of social, economic and cultural change in the Baltic region. (Read more...)
The book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms the troubled identity, that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. It is on why and how the search for identity becomes everything for a postmodern person, an identity builder and shifter. (Read more...)
Original title: "Nepopuliarios įžvalgos: politikos komentarai ir esė" - 2009 m.“Unpopular providences” is a collection of essays and etudes of social critique. This book emphasises the changed mode of the author’s writing style and tone. It seems like the time of writing with unhidden optimism, when one had to support, encourage and calm the surroundings, has passed. (Read more...)
Original title: "Moderniosios kultūros filosofijos metmenys (2 asis leidimas)" - 2009 m.Leonidas Donskis. The suspicion that we live in an era of modern barbarism, where the creation of authentic forms of culture has stopped and where only the interpretation of past creations and the analysis of modern appearances, which haunted the representatives of pesimistic cultural philosohpy of the first part of the XX century, has only strenghtened in the beginning of the XXI century. (Read more...)
Classical and modern literature often reveal more about the organized world`s forms of power and authority structures than do works of political philosophy. What are the origins of political consciousness? How does our understanding of political power and its exercise originate in literature? (Read more...)
Original title: "Tyliosios alternatyvos: socialinės analizės ir kritikos eskizai" - 2008 m.This book was born from a conscious effort to not accept the social state of logic and pressure which we vaguely describe as a transitional period. It is less and less obvious from where or to where we drift, but in spite of this, we are constantly told that we need to reach a certain state. (Read more...)
"L'odio e la paura dell`odio sono antichi quanto il genere umano (forse ancora più antichi...), e le probabilità che la loro eterna familiarità con la condizione umana possa essere interrotta in un prossimo futuro appaiono alquanto scarse, sempreché ve ne siano. (Read more...)
Original title: "XX amžiaus žmogus: Aleksandro Štromo portretai" - 2008 m."Editor – Leonidas Donskis. Vilnius: Versus aureus, 2008. 352 p. (Read more...)