Mintautas Gutauskas is an Associated Professor and Senior Researcher at the Vilnius university and a member of the Research Council of Lithuania. Since defending a PhD, in 2002, on the notion of dialogue in the philosophical hermeneutics, his research interests included the issues of language, dialogue, and intersubjectivity with the focus on Husserl, Gadamer, Levinas, Buber, and Waldenfels. His current research interest are liminal subjects, animality, eco-phenomenology, critique of anthropocentrism, anthropological difference, and Anthropocene with the focus on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fink, Derrida, and Agamben.