Vilnius University Lithuania, Vilnius, ðv. Ignoto, Lithuania.

Arūnas Sverdiolas received his secondary and university education in his birth city, Vilnius. In 1975-1978 studied for a doctoral degree at the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Research Academy, where he defended a doctoral thesis in philosophy in 1979. Arūnas Sverdiolas has taught philosophy across a wide variety of subject areas at Vilnius University, Vilnius Academy of Arts, and other Lithuanian universities for many years, and has published nine monographs on cultural and hermeneutic philosophy.