CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Kubekas, Vilius |
|---|---|
| Title | The Quest for Unity in a Time of Crisis: Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenges of Political Modernity in Interwar Lithuania |
| Summary | The dissertation explores Catholic intellectuals’ reactions to the challenges of political modernity in interwar Lithuania. In particular, it zooms on the ways in which a circle of Lithuanian Catholic intellectuals, centred around the philosopher Stasys Šalkauskis (1886–1941), imagined the relationship between religion and modernity. For this reason, the dissertation follows the rise and fall of the so-called philosophy of culture (Kulturphilosophie), a discipline that was popular among Lithuanian Catholic thinkers during the interwar period, focusing on the period of the 1930s. By tracing the lives and thought of these Catholic intellectuals, the thesis investigates how various trends within Catholicism, Neo-Scholasticism, corporatist social thought, conservative ideologies, and Lithuanian nationalism interacted with each other. In reconstructing the thought of these intellectuals, the thesis pays particular attention to how Lithuanian Catholic thinkers responded to the changing circumstances of international politics and the challenges of political modernity. Invented by Lithuanian Catholic philosophers as a theoretical framework to reflect on the contemporary world and Lithuanian national individuality, philosophy of culture was tasked to reconcile religion and the modern world. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/kubekas_vilius.pdf |
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