Rita Šerpytytė

Rita Šerpytytė is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University (Lithuania). She is the author of the monograph Nihilism and Western Philosophy (Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing House, 2007); editor and co-author of the book A Century with Levinas. On the Ruins of Totality (Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing House, 2009); editor and co-author of the monograph Secularization and Contemporary Culture (Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing House, 2013), co-author of the monograph Transformations of Ontology: Media, Nihilism, Ethics (Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing House, 2015). Her research involves Heidegger’s philosophy, Hegel’s philosophy, postmodern philosophy, contemporary Italian (Gianni Vattimo’s, Giorgio Agamben’s) philosophy; speculative and new realisms; the problem of nihilism and negativity in Western philosophy.