Išeivijos lietuvių etikos ir kultūros steigtis Algimanto Mackaus publicistikoje ir poezijoje

Abstract

This article discusses the ethical and cultural founding of Lithuanian exile, focusing on Algimantas Mackus’s poetry and essays. The humanization of Lithuanian individual myths is analyzed from an axiological point of view. This article also gives some insight into the reasons for an active Lithuanian individuality; the meaning of exile, and the responsibility of creating and facing up to death, which is the only representation of God; and the relation between freedom and personal responsibility (Vincas Kudirka’s biography and Vytautas Kavolis’s works “Nužemintųjų generacija” and “Žmogaus genezė” provide the context of this analysis). The article concludes that the only possibility of exile is the ethical and cultural self-founding of a person.