Professor Algis Mickunas
Professor Algis Mickunas is professor emeritus of philosophy at Ohio University and a preeminent American scholar of contemporary European philosophy, Marxism, hermeneutics, semiotics, phenomenology, and existentialism as well as theories of democracy and politics.
He has published and/or presented hundreds of scholarly papers and articles at numerous conferences in America, Latin America, Japan, Europe, India, and the Middle East and authored more than a dozen books, including Technocracy vs Democracy.
He founded or co-founded several scholarly bodies, including the International Circle of Husserl Scholars, the International Circle of Merleau-Ponty Scholars, The Current State of Marxian Theory, the International Gebser Society, and the Center for the Study of Globalization in Guatemala.
Although Professor Mickunas has retired from teaching at Ohio University where he taught for 30 years, receiving several university professor awards and an outstanding graduate faculty award, he maintains an active schedule of lecturing in Europe and the Middle East and continues writing.
His latest book is Democracy Today.
His most recent honors include being appointed to the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and named the outstanding foreign contributor to humanities and social sciences in Luthuania.
