Lietuvos Estetikos Raida: Analitinės Ir Komparatyvistinės Prieigos
Development Of Lithuanian Aesthetics: Analytical And Comparative Approaches

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the sources and trends of contemporary Lithuanian aesthetics, exploring various aspects of its evolution, peculiarities, and tendencies. The authors show that the study of aesthetics was popular in the first part of the 20th century but later, in the early period of Soviet occupation, such work was decidedly less favoured. In the late period of occupation and after regaining independence, aesthetic thought developed intensively. Recently, distinct schools of aesthetic philosophy, characterized by different methodologies and approaches, have taken shape within which aesthetic ideas are interpreted from different points of view. The authors conclude that although analytical approaches may not be most suitable for the study of aesthetics, there have been some noteworthy achievements in analytic aesthetic thought. Finally, the authors show that very voluminous and productive aesthetic research was done by those who follow the school of comparative methodology and are oriented toward Eastern aesthetics.

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