Gintautas Mažeikis
Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. His PhD dissertation and first book focused on Renaissance symbolic thinking, based on the works of P. O. Kristeller, E. Cassirer and F. Yates, and explored topics such as humanism and the occult in Renaissance Europe. His second thesis (habilitation) examined Pragmatics and Analytics in Philosophical Anthropology, drawing primarily on pragmatism in American cultural anthropology and European cultural studies. His current research interests lie in post-critical theory and symbolic thinking. In this area, he explores critical iconology and literary criticism, as well as the similarities and differences between A. Warburg school of iconology and post-critical interpretations. He analyzes the phenomena of metamorphosis and anamorphosis of consciousness in cultural and social contexts, the diversity of rationalities, and philosophical negotiation and diplomacy. He has published nine books in Lithuanian. His book Critical Theory and Symbolic Thinking (Springer Nature Link) is available in English and discusses critical theory, critical iconology and philosophical diplomacy from the perspective of negative dialectics. He has also published numerous articles in English. Mažeikis is also the author of fantasy/philosophical novels about the imaginary life of the “Lilims.”.
Last updated on March 16th, 2026