Title Julijonas Lindė-Dobilas, kurio niekas necitavo ir niekas neskaitė /
Translation of Title Julijonas Lindė-Dobilas, who was never quoted and never read.
Authors Lazdynas, Gintaras
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis. 2009, T. 8, p. 70−77.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] Nation’s spirit ; Positivism ; Idealism ; Taine ; Dilthey ; Croce ; The Middle Ages ; Renaissance ; Development of culture ; Stages of spiritual development ; Spirit’s history school ; Capabilities ; Religion
Abstract [eng] Not only graduated from German gymnasium, but also was a minister for about 15 years. According to methodological attitudes, Dobilas is close to the German school of the “history of the spirit”. Dobilas created an idealistic cultural conception of Lithuanian nation, the underlying idea of which declared that “not the substance gives forms to the spirit, but the spirit per se creates it for itself”. In order to reach Western cultural state, Lithuania has to go down only one possible road – to nurture its nation’s spirit, which so far generates only fairly primitive forms. On this road Lithuania will have to re-evaluate some values, among them the antiquity cult or pride in its archaic language. The nation will be reborn through the cultivation of the ploughman’s (peasant’s) spirit. Such conceptually consistent approach to art and through it to the nation’s spiritual problems in Lithuanian culture was not only new but also psychologically hardly acceptable because Dobilas did not promise the quick rebirth of the nation.
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2009