Vytautas Kavolis (October 8, 1930 in Kaunas – June 25, 1996 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian.
[1] With his parents, Kavolis left Lithuania in the wake of the Soviet occupation in 1944, living first in West Germany and then in the United States.
[1] During this time he also served as a visiting professor at The New School in New York City and at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.
Kavolis was a member of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, serving on its executive board from 1974 to 1977 and as its president from 1977 to 1983.
He was convinced that this denominator of liberalism along with mutual understanding between civilisations should nowadays be promoted by a modern educational system.