Lithuanian philosopher, essayist and cultural critic Leonidas Donskis was born in Klaipėda in 1962.

He is a professor for Vytautas Magnum University and head of the Department of Philosophy (Kaunas), and a Docent of Helsinki University (Finland). Also, he is a Doctor of Humanitarian Sciences (Vilnius University, 1990) and a Doctor of Social Sciences (Helsinki University, 1999). For seven years, he worked as a researcher at universities and research centres in the USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Hungary. L. Donskis has published five books in the Lithuanian and three books in English. He edits the book series in Baltic Studio’s Academy’s publishing arm, Rodopi, B. V. (Holland). Also, he is the author and host of the Lithuanian cultural and political TV show, Be pykčio (Without anger).

The publishing house “Versus aureus“ has published the following works by the philosopher: Pilietinė visuomenė ir jos priešai (Civil society and its enemies, 2004) Tapatybė ir laisvė: trys intelektualiniai portretai (Identity and freedom: three intellectual portraits, 2005), Be pykčio: vienerių metų minčių žemėlapis (Without Anger: mapping one year’s thoughts, 2006), Taip, bet... (Yes, but…, 2007), Neapykantos formos: įaudrinta vaizduotė modernioje filosofijoje ir literatūroje (Forms of Hatred: The Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature, 2007).