From the Revolution of Dilettantes and to the Managerial Revolution
June 02, 2011
By Leonidas Donskis
The Lithuanian writer Ricardas Gavelis – an iconic though perhaps neglected author in his own country who was especially active in the 1990s once coined the term “the epoch of dilettantes” to describe the explosive proliferation of universities and colleges, both public and private, whose number sky-rocketed almost immediately after the country became independent. Without a shadow of a doubt, one could assume that this reflected a far wider tendency characteristic of the former Soviet “republics” in general. (Read more..)
