Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė ir Mykolas Römeris: modernios Lietuvos visuomenės modelio beieškant

LTŠio straipsnio herojai Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė ir Mykolas Römeris yra tarpusavyje susieti to paties proceso, kuris yra įvardijamas lietuvių tautinio judėjimo, sąjūdžio, Lietuvos modernios visuomenės formavimosi vardu. Abu buvo to proceso dalyviai, o vienas iš jų - Mykolas Römeris - pirmas šio proceso tyrinėtojas. Tačiau juos sieja ne tik šie, bet ir kiti straipsnio temai svarbūs momentai: bendra kilmė, bendra veikla, kai kurie pasaulėjautos momentai. Straipsnio tikslas - pasiaiškinti, kokią įtaką visa tai turėjo jų panašiam modernios Lietuvos visuomenės „įsivaizdavimui“, kaip ir kodėl radosi tas panašus „įsivaizdavimas“. [Iš teksto, p. 8]

ENGabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė and Mykolas Römeris were bound together by the šame process known as Lithuanian national movement, the formation of Lithuanian modern society. They were both participants of the šame process, and one of them - Mykolas Römeris - was the first investigator of this process. They were also connected by their noble descent, some aspects of their outlook, common activities. „Stability“ of G. Petkevičaitė-Bitė, as well as M. Römeris, in the process of the formation of modern Lithuanian nation was determined by the fact that they were first of all people representing culture and only then politics. Both of them vvere of the opinion that personalities created culture, and that every cultural activity was autonomous. Inclcpendence of cultural creation is the main condition for its existance and value. The greatest autonomy was recognized in the sphere of world vievvs. Therefore, both of them thought that the duty of statė was to recognize everyone‘s outlook, not to favour one over another, to ensure conditions for a free personality through the parliamentary political structure of the society and the civil principle. The fact that they were of noble descent supposed respect for tradition and perception of the meaning of tradition to the formation and survival of the modern society. Seeing the developing modernization of Lithuanian society at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, they did not contrast this process with tradition, būt they tried to make an organic link between them through the model of civil society. The difference of their definition of modern society was the following: G. Petkevičaitė-Bitė linked it with ethnographic Lithuania, while M. Römeris - with Historical Lithuania. [From the publication]