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Rita Šerpytytė is full professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department for Continental Philosophy and Religious Studies at Vilnius University (Lithuania). Her research involves Heidegger’s philosophy, Hegel’s philosophy, Postmodern philosophy, Contemporary Italian philosophy (Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben and others); Speculative and New Realisms; the problem of Nihilism and Negativity in Western Philosophy.
She was a Visiting Fellow at Department of Philosophy, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) (1993 and 1996); a Visiting Researcher of Center for Religious Studies, Trent (Italy) (2004), and a Visiting Professor of Turin’s university (Italy) (2020).
She was a lecturer at universities of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, USA and invited lecturer of international conferences at different universities of Italy, Spain, France, Germany.
Selected monograph books: Nihilism and Western Philosophy, (LT), Vilnius: VU Press, 2007.
Transformations of Ontology: Media, Nihilism, Ethics, co-ed. with D. Bacevičiūtė and Tomas Sodeika, (LT), Vilnius: VU Press, 2015. Spectres of Reality. Western Nihilism between Diagnosis and Theory, (LT), Vilnius: VU Press, 2019.