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Edited by Jurate Baranova, the collection brings together studies ranging from classical philosophy and modern thought (mysticism, phenomenology, ethics, postmodernism, nihilism, and analytics) to comparative cultural themes (Eastern and medieval aesthetics, epistemology of mysticism, ecological ethics, information society, and philosophical anthropology), culminating in a focused section on practical philosophy.","CULTURALHERITAGEANDCONTEMPORARYCHANGESERIES IVA,EASTERNANDCENTRALEUROPE,VOLUME26  \nCONTEMPORARYPHILOSOPHICALDISCOURSEINLITHUANIA  \nLithuanian Philosophical Studies IV  \nEdited byJurate Baranova  \nCULTURALHERITAGEAND CONTEMPORARYCHANGESERIES IVA,EASTERNAND CENTRALEUROPE,VOLUME26General EditorGeorge F.McLean  \nCONTEMPORARYPHILOSOPHICALDISCOURSEINLITHUANIA  \nLithuanian Philosophical Studies IV  \nEdited byJurate Baranova  \nCopyright ◎ 2005byThe Council for Researchin Values and Philosophy  \nBox261Cardinal StationWashington,D.C.20064  \nAll rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication  \nContemporary philosophical discourse in Lithuania/edited by JurateBaranova.  \np.cm.--(Lithuanian philosophical studies;4)(Cultural heritageand contemporary change.Series IVA,Eastern and Central Europe;v.26)Includes bibliographical references and index.  \n1.Philosophy,Lithuanian.I.Baranova,Jurate.II.Series.III.Series:Cultural heritage and contemporary change.Series IVA,Eastern andCentral Europe;v.26.  \nB4742.C6620052004030998197--dc22CIP  \nISBN 1-56518-215-4(pbk.)  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nIntroduction: About What do Contemporary LithuanianPhilosophers Philosophize?Jurate Baranova                      \nPART 1. CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARYTHOUGHT  \nChapter I. Mysticism of Meister Eckhart andthe Phenomenology of Edmund HusserlTomas Sodeika                   21Chapter II. The Categorical Imperative and the Faceof the Other: Immanuel Kant and Emmanuel LevinasJurate Baranova                     41Chapter I. Friedrich Nietzsche: ArchitecturalMetaphor of Classical Thought and its SymptomsArunasMickevicius                 57Chapter IV. George Orwell: The Anatomy of Fanaticismand Hatred  \nLeonidas Donskis71PARTII. MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF WESTERNPOSTMODERNISMChapter V. Postmodernism, Capitalism, and RegressiveHistory in the Post-Soviet ArealityAudrone Zukauskaite                 99Chapter VI. Nihilism and Weak ThoughtRita Serpytyte                 107Chapter VII. Between Philosophy and Rhetoric, orHistoricizing Postmodernism in Meta-Historical StudiesZenonas Norkus                   121Chapter VIII. Positivism, Post-positivism and PostmodernismEvaldas Nekrasas                   145Chapter IX. Traditional Japanese Medieval Aesthetics:Comparative Studies  \nPART II. CULTURAL COMPARATIVISTICS  \nAntanas Andrijauskas163  \nChapter X. The New Paradigm of Order: from the Comparison ofKitaro Nishida and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the Search for Strategiesfor Lithuanian PhilosophyArunas Gelunas_193Chapter XI. Experience and Context: Cross-culturalApproach to the Epistemology of MysticismAudrius Beinorius219Chapter XII. Situationality as the Main Principleof Chinese “Aesthetic Being”Loreta Poskaite249Chapter XIII. Divine Light in Plotinus and Al-SuhrawardiAlgis Uzdavinys271Chapter XIV. The Word of HonorAlphonso Lingis291Chapter XV Ordained by the Master's HandVytautas Rubavicius305Chapter XVI. On the Concept “Information Society”:Counter-factuality, Ideology and Public DiscourseMarius Povilas Saulauskas313Chapter XVII. The Place of Ecological Ethics in CultureCeslovas Kalenda333Chapter XVIII. Nothing and IsnessArvydas Sliogeris343Chapter XIX. Pragmatics and Analytics ofPhilosophical AnthropologyGintautas Mazeikis355Chapter XX. Philosophy in Lithuanian Education:Past and Present  \nPART IV. 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