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Vytautas Kavolis
was a Lithuanian-American sociologist, cultural historian, social thinker, and professor at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania until his death in 1996. He founded and served as an editor of the Lithuanian-American journal Metmenys, was a board member of Kulturos barai, and was author of more than a dozen books published in the US and Lithuania.
Eurozine Articles
Civilization theory and collective identity in the postmodern-globalized era
In a prescient essay from 1988, the late Lithuanian sociologist Vytautas Kavolis argues for the centrality of the concept of "civilization" in debates on postmodern global conditions. [more]
24.07.2006
Modernization, globality, and nationalism as cultural endeavours
An essay by the late Lithuanian-American sociologist arguing that the idea of the nation retains its validity alongside processes of modernization and globalization. [more]
26.05.2006
