Ronald Peter Glasberg

The University of Calgary | HBI · Communication, Media and Film

The essay seeks to develop the foundations of a general hermeneutics, by which I mean a strategy of interpretation that not only encompasses the sciences and the humanities, but also seeks to integrate them. More specifically, certain classic texts in the humanities (i.e., those deemed representative of certain cultural traditions) are accordingly...

The study seeks to place anti-semitism in a wider context by exploring the dynamics of betrayal—a designation often attributed to Jews, but also attributed to many victimized groups who are also deemed to be treacherous. The study argues that what lies at the heart of this practice is the betrayal (on the part of the victimizers) of ideological or...

The presentation seeks to identify a major spiritual sickness that is not only widespread but also kept out of public discourse or seriously minimized in terms of its scope and destructive effects. Most religious traditions derive much of their power by giving 'believers' a sense of personal and/or collective worth, where worth may be associated wi...

This article is a spiritual interpretation of Leonhard Euler's famous equation linking the most important entities in mathematics: e (the base of natural logarithms), π (the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle), i (√-1),1 , and . The equation itself (eπi+1 = 0>) can be understood in terms of a traditional mathematical proof, but...

Reviews book that explores the nature and potential of interdisciplinary research. Presents not only a history of both disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity but also a review of the major problems confronting interdisciplinary research and some possible solutions. (VWC)

With respect to matters of ultimate import, such as the nature of reality, human discourse appears to be deeply divided to the point that the possibilities of meaningful communication become seriously compromised. After pointing out some of the more obvious manifestations of this discursive breakdown, the present study seeks to remedy this state of...