Everyday Valuable Aspects: Prospects of Philosophy, Sociology and Communication

Abstract

The article reviews the scientific conference “Everyday Valuable Aspects: Prospects of Philosophy, Sociology and Communication”. The text discusses the course of the conference, some of the main thoughts expressed by the speakers, and the episodes of the discussion. The conference analysed the relationship of everyday life and theoretical thinking, the relation between reality revealed by technoscience and everyday social-linguistic world, the sociological concept of everyday life, the daily practice as metacommunication, the problem of grounding values, values in everyday discourse, the Lithuanian youth discourse on everyday life, the importance of colour in daily life, the awareness of values and everyday transgression in Mahãyãna Buddhism, the concept of time in Lithuanian archaic thinking, the concepts of “fundamental personal values” and “life concerns”, G. Deleuze’s philosophy, M. Heidegger’s everyday life phenomenology, etc.