2025-02Thematic Section
Standing Together Is Not Enough: A Phenomenological Outline of Solidarity (With Constant Reference to Eastern European Experience)

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0017

Abstract: The aim of my paper is to provide a phenomenological outline of solidarity understood as a social phenomenon. I will defend the thesis that solidarity cannot be properly understood either as a concept, or as some institutionalized mechanism grounded in a legal-political order. It precedes and grounds such orders. Solidarity belongs to the social realm within which it can be properly understood only as an…

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From the Struggle for Freedom to a Culture of Liberty: Philosophical Reflections on the Lithuanian Experience of the Liberation Movement

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0016

Abstract: This paper discusses the liberation process of Lithuanian society that led to the restoration of independence in 1991, followed by three decades of integration into Western democratic liberal economies. It focuses on the predominant emotional responses and experiences of Lithuanian society as it faced historical choices – such as participating in the constitutional referendum of 1992…

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2025-02Thematic Section
The Failure of Signs and the Need for Community: A Latvian Perspective on Developing a Cohesive Society

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0015

Abstract: This paper offers a Latvian perspective on the challenges faced by Latvia in its efforts to create a united society after its independence was restored in 1991. Despite corrections made to policies and the paraphrasing of the approaches, social integration in Latvian society has been evaluated as having failed. The renewed identification with democratic values has also brought along…

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2025-02Thematic Section
AI Mika from Eastern Europe: Attitudes Toward Work in Eastern-European Region

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0014

Abstract: The rapid development of AI technologies will bring about revolutionary changes in the labor market. When considering the possible impact of AI based technologies on the labor market it is important to consider the region-specific cultural differences in Europe, especially those differences which are relevant to understanding the attitude(s) toward work in the region in question….

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2025-02Thematic Section
Self-Narratives of Resilience: Contingency and the Weakness of Identification

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0013

Abstract: This article, written at the intersection of social philosophy and anthropology, explores a mode of self-identification found in the narratives of the older generation of Lithuania who experienced or only witnessed the coercion of an occupational regime. This mode is named the “weak identification” and prescribed to forms of resilience. It is evident in life…

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2025-02Thematic Section
Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of “In-betweenness”: Re-reading Abdziralovich, Miłosz, and Kundera in the Times of the New Imperial War in Europe

30/11/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0012

Abstract: The article undertakes a critical examination of the relevance of interpreting Belarusian identity through the conceptual framework of being “in-between” East and West. In the aftermath of the 2020 protests in Belarus and the onset of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the author reevaluates Ignat Abdziralovich’s early twentieth century theory of “in-betweenness”…

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2025-01Thematic Section
The Role of Philosophy in the De-traumatizing of the Sedimented History

31/07/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0006

Abstract: The aim of this essay is to answer the question of what philosophy has to offer for the de-traumatization of unreflected history, or the historical sediments of the undifferentiated continuum of our consciousness. Often the historical sediments of everyday anxieties and imaginings have never been subjected to proper critical reflection, and the official…

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2025-01Thematic Section
Existential War and the Ontological Understanding of Culture

31/07/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0005

Abstract: Experiencing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine gives grounds to define culture as a particular world of collective existence; one that is under an existential threat and therefore, this full-scale aggression should be considered a war on cultural world. This allows for the interpretation of the concept of culture in terms of Heidegger’s existential ontology: as being-of-the-cultural-world. Habermas’ universalist…

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2025-01Thematic Section
The Other Heading of Europe: From Miłosz to Derrida

31/07/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0004

Abstract: The article explores a conceptualization of Eastern Europe at the intersection of literature and philosophy, focusing on two texts: The Issa Valley (1955) by Czesław Miłosz and The Other Heading (1991) by Jacques Derrida. In this context, Eastern Europe can be understood as a historical topos situated between Russian imperial violence concerning civil liberties and Western Enlightenment rationality,…

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2025-01Thematic Section
The Idea of “Eastern Europe”: Cultural Synthesis at the Frontier with the Enemy Beyond Europe

31/07/2025  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0003

Abstract: The paper examines Eastern Europe’s complex and often problematic identity, particularly its positioning between East and West through the philosophical, historical, cultural, and geopolitical debates and their implications of this region’s identity. The paper discusses the role of cultural synthesis in shaping national identity, specifically focusing on the work of Lithuanian…

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