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Report from Sarajevo

Dane R. Gordon reports from the Bosnian Paradigm Conference, November 18-20 1998.

Itravelled to Sarajevo in November to attend a conference entitled ‘Bosnian Paradigm’. It was not specifically a philosophy conference, although many philosophers from different countries in Europe and the US took part, and philosophical themes were evident throughout.

A paradigm is a standard, a norm, a framework, something to copy, a guide. By those definitions Bosnia is a strange choice of paradigm. As reported recently the country has not yet freed itself from its totalitarian past.

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