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7The Other HolocaustJournal of Interdisciplinary Studies 12 (1-2): 85-108. 2000.This essay explores an interdisciplinary framework for the comparative study of genocide. It traces the Other Holocaust of communist genocide in the twentieth century, with an estimated 100 million victims. Both the Nazi Holocaust and communist genocide raise major ethical dilemmas concerning individual and collective responsibility. The central underlying dynamic common to the Nazi Holocaust, communist and other genocides is the radical discounting of human life and dignity, and denial of the i…Read more
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4The Third YugoslaviaJournal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10 (1-2): 115-141. 1998.This essay offers hope that beyond the specter and tragedy of the Yugoslav civil war lie the prospects for peace, democratization, economic and political reconstruction, and the evolution of a democratic Third Yugoslavia. But, to realize this hope, there is a need for the development of a genuine civic culture and civil society in the Yugoslav successor states based on democratic values, pluralism, and tolerance, rooted in the conception of universal human rights, constitutionalism, and equality…Read more
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16Taming the Digital BehemothJournal of Interdisciplinary Studies 32 (1-2): 1-16. 2020.This essay explores the digital challenge, how to humanize technology, and the need to rethink the digital-human divide. This is imperative in view of superintelligent Al, which may escape human control. The information age poses quandaries regarding the uses and abuses of technology. A major critique concerns the commercial design of digital technologies that engenders compulsive behavior. All technologies affect humans in a reciprocal way. The new digital technologies-from smartphones to the I…Read more
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3The Postmodern ChallengeJournal of Interdisciplinary Studies 28 (1-2): 1-18. 2016.The thesis of this essay is that the central postmodern challenge is to recover stable, objective normative standards that presuppose cultural renewal and liberal arts education building on the classical paideia of educating the whole person. Humans possess an innate moral sense that requires nurturing and developing to encompass both résumé and eulogy virtues as proposed by David Brooks’ The Road to Character. Wisdom-seeking traditions aim at self-mastery, but need tempering by neo-Kantian epis…Read more
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7The Quest for Meaning and Redemption (Editorial)Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 29 (1-2): 1-3. 2017.
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6Philosophy Redivivus?The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 36 86-92. 1998.Curiously, in the late twentieth century, even agnostic cosmologists like Stephen Hawking—who is often compared with Einstein—pose metascientific questions concerning a Creator and the cosmos, which science per se is unable to answer. Modern science of the brain, e.g. Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind, is only beginning to explore the relationship between the brain and the mind-the physiological and the epistemic. Galileo thought that God's two books-Nature and the Word-cannot be in conflict, …Read more
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14Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 67 (4). 1994.
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33The Concept of Alienation in Avant-garde Yugoslav MarxismInternational Philosophical Quarterly 17 (2): 195-218. 1977.
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15Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 70 (2): 155-165. 1996.
Oskar Gruenwald
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research
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Institute for Interdisciplinary ResearchOther
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
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