Antanas ANDRIJAUSKAS

Born 3 November 1948 – academician at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, habilitated doctor of humanitarian sciences (history of philosophy), scientific officer at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, president of the Lithuanian Aesthetic Association.

Born in Kaunas, to a family of office workers. Attended Veisiejai Secondary School and the Kaunas School of Art. During 1968–1973, studied the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and Orientalistics at the Philosophy Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1972 he took first place in the International Young Scientists Competition and was awarded a gold medal. During 1973–1977, a doctoral candidate at the same university. In 1978, granted the degree of doctor of philosophy. During 1977–1990, senior instructor and docent at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural History of the Vilnius Art Academy. Since 1990, habilitated doctor and professor. During 1981–1982, studied at Paris–Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and at the Collège de France. In 1998, conducted research at theCentre de Recherches sur l’Art (CRÉART) of the University of Paris X–Nanterre. During 1998–2002, head of the Department of Comparative Culturology, Aesthetics, and Art Theory at the Institute for Culture, Philosophy, and Art. During 2001–2004, head of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural History at the Vilnius Art Academy. During 2002–2018, head of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the Institute for Culture, Philosophy, and Art (since 2010, the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute). He has lectured as a visiting professor at various French, Japanese, Canadian, Belgian, Swiss, Finnish, Polish, Russian, and other institutions of higher education.

E-mail: aandrijauskas@gmail.com

Research

Professor Andrijauskas is one of modern Lithuania’s most outstanding representatives in the humanities and has a rare industry as shown by his authorship of 22 monographs, 38 compiled books, and over 650 scientific articles in various languages. Over 100 books have been issued under his supervision by various publishers. His contribution to Lithuanian philosophy, comparative civilization studies, cultural studies, aesthetics, the philosophy of art, the history of ideas, and oriental studies is especially important. He has founded and is the editor in chief of seven academic publication series, is a member of the editorial boards of seven Lithuanian and international journals, publishes research works in the Lithuanian and foreign press, organizes and actively participates in world congresses, international research conferences, and various research projects, and maintains research contacts with many of the world’s most noted scientists in his field.

Since 1993 he was the head of the problem group of Oriental and Comparative Studies at theCulture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute that was turned into the Department of Comparative Culturology, Aesthetics and Art Theory. Since 2002 he is the head of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute’s Department of Comparative Cultural Studies (now Comparative Cultural Research).

In 2002 Andrijauskas established the research group of aesthetics and philosophy of art, which contains creative and well-educated young reaserchers, the vast majority of whom have already prepared or published their monographs. All of them have studied in prominent French, Belgian, Swiss and other reasearch centres. The group has organized 18 domestic and international aesthetic and philosophy of art conferences. Under the Andrijauskas’ editorship it published four extensive volumes dedicated to these issues: “Transformations of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art” (2005, 700 p.), “Alternation of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art” (2006, 600 p.), “Comparative Eastern and Western Aesthetics” (2006, 543 p.), and “Interactions of Problem Fields of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art” (2008, 544 p).

For the series of scholarly works Comparative Research into Culture, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art, he was awarded the National Prize for Lithuanian Scholarship in 2003.

 

• 1. Editor series: Kultūrologija ( Culturology )
• 2. Editor series: Bibliotheca Orientalia et Comparativa
• 3. Editor series: Rytai-Vakarai: Komparatyvistinės studijos ( East -West: Comparative studies)
• 4. Editor series: Neklasikinė filosofija ( Non-classical Philosophy )
• 5. Editor series: Estetikos ir meno filosofijos tyrinėjimai (Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Studies)
• 6. Editor series: Lietuvos kultūros tyrinėjimai (Studies of Lihuanian Culture )
• 7. Editor series: Lietuvos žydų kultūros tyrinėjimai (Studies of Lithuanian Jewish Culture)
• 8. Member, Editorial board of Lithuanian Encyclopedia
• 9. Member, International Research Group and Editorial Board of Non-classical Aesthetics
• 10. Member Editorial Board of Aesthetica Universalis 
• 11. Member, Editorial Board of The Neigbourhoods of Cultures, the Borderlines of Arts
• 12. Member, Editorial Board of Acta Orientalia Vilnensis
• 13. Member, Editorial Board of Logos
• 14. Member, Editorial Board of Humanistica
• 15. Member, Editorial Board of Sovijus
• 16. Member, Editorial Board of Eidos
• 17. Member, Editorial Board of Limes