LTRemiantis akademinės viešnagės Havajuose ir dalyvavimo vienuoliktojoje Rytų-Vakarų filosofų konferencijoje, skirtoje vietos problematikai, patirtimi, straipsnyje analizuojami kai kurie metodologiniai komparatyvistikos aspektai, išryškėjantys tiesiogiai - pačioje viešnagės vietoje - patiriant ir filosofiškai apmąstant geografinės bei kultūrinės „vietos' svarbą kultūros fenomenų suvokimui ir daugiabriauniam komparatyviniam palyginimui. Atkreipiant dėmesį į naujausias pasaulinės komparatyvistikos tendencijas, savitai atsiskleidžiančias iš įvairiais aspektais suvokiamos „vietos“ požiūrio taško, ypač iš lietuviškosios ir havajietiškosios filotopinės perspektyvos, argumentuojamas komparatyvistikos, kaip savitos metodologinės humanitarinių mokslų prieigos, aktualumas šiuolaikinei filosofija' ir prieštaravimų draskomam dabarties pasauliui. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Filotopija; Havajai; Komparatyvistinė filosofija; Ksenofobija; Kultūra; Netolerancija; Vienuoliktoji Rytų-Vakarų filosofų konferencija; Vieta; Comparative philosophy; Culture; Hawaii; Intolerance; Philotopy; Place; The 11th East - West Philosopher's conference; Xenophobia.
ENThe author of the article focuses on the current situation in the field of comparative research, especially comparative philosophy conceived in the framework of the East-West philosophers’ dialogue understood in terms of the Honolulu movement of comparative philosophy. As a point of departure, he employs his experience gained at the Eleventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference held on May 24-31, 2016, in Honolulu, at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and devoted to the topic of “Place”. In the author’s opinion, there are many different ways of comparing cultural phenomena chosen for comparativist investigation and numerous reasons for conducting comparative research as such. The nature, or “substance”, of cultural objects and phenomena, selected as the members of comparison, should not be viewed as the only significant determinant worth to be taken into account. The place itself, despite its “circumstantial” nature, as a geographically and topographically defined point of view from which the cultural phenomena are observed, as well as the locality where the comparative research is conducted by a scholar who works in the comparativist tradition, is, arguably, also a major determinant. Drawing on the concept of philotopy (meaning the “love of place”, or the “love of homeland”), developed by Arvydas Šliogeris, the foremost contemporary Lithuanian philosopher, and employing his own experience gained at the East- West conference (as well as the overall impression left by this exotic faraway place during the author’s half-month-long stay on the Hawaiian islands), the author of the article develops a “circumstantial” aspect of comparative research and argues for its relevance to contemporary philosophy and modem world. [...]. [From the publication]