Antanas Andrijauskas

Antanas Andrijauskas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is academician of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, a habilitated doctor and professor in the humanities (history of philosophy), head of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the Lithuanian Culture Researche Institute, and president of the Lithuanian Aesthetic Association. In 1973, he completed his studies in philosophy at Lomonosov University in Moscow; in 1978, he defended a PhD dissertation and, in 1990, a dissertation to become a habilitated doctor. In 1981—1982, he gained experience at the Sorbonne and at the Collège de France; in 1996, he worked as a scholar at L’institute d’art et d’archéologie (L’Université de Paris-1) and, in 1998, at the Centre de Recherches sur l’art in Paris. As a visiting professor he has lectured at various institutions of higher education in France, Japan, Belgian, Switzerland, Russia, and many other countries. He has published 22 monographs, 47 studies, 38 compiled books, and over 650 scientific articles in various languages. Over 100 books have been issued under his supervision by various publishers. His fields of research are the history of philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of art, the comparative study of civilizations, art history, Oriental studies, and the history of ideas. For the series of scholarly works Comparative Research into Culture, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art, he was awarded the National Prize for Lithuanian Scholarship in 2003.