Ruta Marija Vabalaitė

Рута Вабалайте

Ruta Marija Vabalaite in 1998 defended PhD thesis entitled „The Problem of Art’s Death (Comparative Analysis of Basic Concepts)” at Vilnius University. In 1997–2011 read courses on history of philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, etc. at Vilnius Pedagogical University. Since 2009 works in the Department of History of Lithuanian philosophy of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, since 2020 is the head of the same department. Since 2011 professor at Mykolas Romeris University, in 2012 – 2018 was the Bachelor of Philosophy study program director at this university. As an Erasmus professor lectured at Maynooth (Ireland, 2013) and Ioannina (Greece, 2022) Universities.

Published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed editions, made over 50 contributions at national and international conferences, took part at the research projects funded by EU (ESIFs) and Research Council of Lithuania, did the scientific internships at Warsaw University (2015) at the Institutes of Philosophy of National Academies of Science of Ukraine (2017) and Belarus (2019) and Lithuanian Research Center in Chicago, USA (2023). Is a member of editorial board of international scientific journal. Is a member of Lithuanian Philosophical Association, International Association for Aesthetics and The Society for German Idealism and Romanticism.

Main research interests: philosophy of art, modern and contemporary philosophies, history of Lithuanian philosophy.

Email: marijavabalaite@mruni.eu

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-4772

 

Recent articles in Scopus publication

  1. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2025). Philosophical Reflection on the Autonomy of Art. Classical Conceptions. Logos Lithuania, 122, pp. 120–128. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2025.13
  2. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2025). Concepts of Artistic Autonomy in Post-Kantian Philosophy. Logos Lithuania, 123, pp. 141–149. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2025.38
  3. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2025). The spread of Teilhard de Chardin's ideas in the Lithuanian diaspora. Religiski Filozofiski, 35, pp. 70–87.
  4. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2023). The first józef Gołuchowski’s tractates in the Context of Western Philosophy. Logos Lithuania, 115, pp. 17–24. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2023.25
  5. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2022). Concepts of Physical Culture of Philosophers of the Third Decade of Independent Lithuania. Logos Lithuania, 111, pp. 100–106. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2022.32
  6. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2022). The Meaning of Ideas in the Tractates of Józef Gołuchowski. Logos Lithuania, 112, pp. 36–41. https://doi.org/10.24101/LOGOS.2022.46
  7. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2021). The concept of the purpose of philosophy in the tractates of józef goluchowski. Logos Lithuania, (106), pp. 21–25. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2021.03
  8. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2021). Between locality and globality: The problems of the history of philosophy in Lithuania. Sententiae, 40(2), pp. 46–54. https://doi.org/10.31649/sent40.02.046

Other publications

  1. Vabalaitė, R. M. et al. (2020). A forgotten philosopher Juozapas Čepėnas: ethic insights. Filosofija, sociologija, 31(1), 61-69. https://doi.org/10.6001/fil-soc.v31i1.4179. (Scopus; Web of Science)
  2. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2020). The Relationship of Vydunas' Ideas to Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy. Logos, 103, 81-88. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2020.29. (Scopus; Web of Science)
  3. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2019). The Search for True Selfhood in Karl Jaspers’s Philosophy. Logos, 100, 68-75. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2019.51. (Scopus; Web of Science) Vabalaitė, R. M. (2018). Anioł Dowgird’s Philosophy of Beauty and Art. Logos, 96, 28-35. (Web of Science)
  4. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2017). Activity and passivity in the creation of art: Heidegger and later philosophers. Filosofija. Sociologija, 28(1), 3-10. (Scopus; Web of Science)
  5. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2014). Questions about the art itself in the modern artworks = Klausimai apie patį meną moderniuose meno kūriniuose. Filosofija. Sociologija, 25(1), 29-34. (Scopus; Web of Science)

Monographs and parts of monographs

  1. Vabalaitė, R. M. Labanauskas, R., & Aleksandravičius, P. (2024). Teilhard'o de Chardino idėjos ir diskusijos apie jas išeivijoje ir Lietuvoje : monografija = Teilhard de Chardin’s ideas and discussions on them within both Lithuania and the Diaspora. Vilnius: Mykolo Romerio universitetas. 172 p. ISBN 9786094880872. eISBN 9786094880865. https://cris.mruni.eu/cris/handle/007/48768
  2. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2018). Early Heidegger‘s concept of identity. In Identity and globalization : ethical implications / ed. by D. M. Stanciene, I. Darginaviciene, & S. Robbins. (Pp. 59-67). Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. ISBN 9781565183261. (Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change. Series IVA, Eastern and Central European Philosophical Studies. Lithuanian Philosophical Studies, VIII ; vol. 57)
  3. Aleksandravičius, P., Astra, L., Grigas, R., Jakimenko, V., Kuzmickas, B. J., Mickunas, A., Morkūnienė, J., & Vabalaitė, R. M. (2015). Lietuvos visuomenės mąstymo kaita Europiniame akiratyje : mokslo studija. Vilnius: Mykolo Romerio universitetas. 252 p. ISBN 9789955197294. https://repository.mruni.eu/handle/007/16807