Gintautas Mažeikis
Professor of the Philosophy Department of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. His first (PhD) thesis and first book was on Renaissance Symbolical Thinking (based on books by P. O. Kristeller, E. Cassirer and F. Yates) and focused on topics such as humanism and the occult in Renaissance Europe. The second thesis (habilitation) was on Pragmatics and Analytics in Philosophical Anthropology, mainly based on pragmatism in American cultural anthropology and European cultural studies. His current interests are in critical theory and symbolic thinking, where he discusses the (dis)similarities of the Warburg school of iconology compared to interpretations of critical theory that include analysis of the creative industries, propaganda, esotericism, and politics. Published eight books in Lithuanian and many articles in English. The last book is Critical theory and cultural politics (Kaunas, 2023, Lithuanian) where he discusses the issues and significance of negative dialectics.
Last updated on April 30th, 2024