“We are as in a field of peas. We must start from the beginning. We are not related to ancestry anymore“.

A Doctor of Philosophy, Arūnas Sverdiolas is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, and teaches philosophy at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and Vilnius University. A. Sverdiolas is also a member of the Open Society Fund-Lithuania’s Board and the highest-ranking person in the Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art.

In 2005, in the course of researching the newspaper Atgimimas (Revival), A. Sverdiolas was named as “the yet undiscovered and unacknowledged conservator of philosophic thought”.

The philosopher is an active participant in discussions about the condition of today’s society and its future.

In 2006, the publishing house “Versus aureus” published A. Sverdiolas’ essay about the peculiarities of the public space in present-day Lithuania: Lėkštutėlė lėkštelė (from the series “Civitas essay”).