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Verso una politica del limite? Note sul potere e l’azione nel lessico politico di Hannah Arendt
No full textThe starting point of this essay is the Arendtian critique of violence taken as the main interpretative key of the “immense polemic" entertained by the author with the Western philosophical-political tradition. Following this theoretical path, the paper intends to discuss some recurring terms in Arendt’s lexicon. Identifying in Montesquieu and then in Rosa Luxemburg two essential references for the author of The Human Condition, the essay analyzes the questions of the limit and the divisibility of power. The thesis is that, if inserted
in this interpretative frame, Arendt does not belong to the liberal tradition. The theory of action, the praise of the councils and the historical experiences of self-government along with a relational and non-violent conception of power and law are elements that allow us to identify clear radical and libertarian tendencies in Hannah Arendt's thought
«Né il potere con il dominio né la legge con il comando». Caffi, Arendt e l’altra tradizione
No full textLa tesi che qui si presenta muove dalla ricostruzione della vicenda biografica e intellettuale dell’italo-russo Andrea Caffi (San Pietroburgo 1887 – Parigi 1955). Il primo capitolo dell’elaborato cerca quindi di fare luce su questo «autore tanto acuto e tanto misconosciuto» e ne valorizza l’originalità del pensiero. Se le sue teorie sono legittimamente riconducibili a una matrice socialista e libertaria, egli rimane comunque un autore incollocabile in una qualsiasi scuola teorico-politica canonizzata.
Per questa ragione la tesi prosegue cercando di individuare una cornice teorico-interpretativa in grado di restituire a Caffi l’attenzione e il rigore scientifico che merita, senza cedere però a inopportune forzature interpretative. Al fine di adempiere a questo compito, la ricerca qui condotta ricorre al pensiero politico di Hannah Arendt. Il secondo capitolo della tesi è dunque dedicato alla presentazione di uno specifico aspetto della teoria filosofico-politica arendtiana: l’idea che in seno alla “grande tradizione del pensiero politico occidentale”, caratterizzata da una certa idea del potere come istanza sovrana e monopolio della violenza, esista anche una “altra tradizione” capace invece di veicolare una concezione non dominativa del potere. La duplice domanda a cui si cerca di dare risposta è dunque la seguente: potrebbe Andrea Caffi essere letto alla luce della suggestione arendtiana dell’esistenza di una tradizione di minoranza della filosofia politica occidentale? E, se sì, può Caffi restituire a sua volta una conferma della validità di questa stessa intuizione arendtiana dandole anche un nuovo termine di confronto, per altro esterno ai più classici riferimenti degli Arendt studies?
L’individuazione di questa cornice di senso, ovviamente, non è per nulla arbitraria. Non solo degli importanti studiosi hanno già indicato significative convergenze tra Caffi e Arendt ma, storicamente parlando, non vanno sottovalutate alcune comuni frequentazioni dei due autori e, soprattutto, la loro partecipazione alla rivista newyorkese «politics». Nel terzo (e ultimo) capitolo, dunque, le precedenti due parti della tesi convergono, presentando infine un dialogo postumo tra il pensatore italo-russo e la filosofa tedesca. Incentrando questo dialogo sul tema della critica della violenza e di una generale ridefinizione radicale della politica dopo la catastrofe totalitaria – fondando teoricamente e antropologicamente la vita associata sulla base delle categorie della pluralità (Arendt) e della socievolezza (Caffi) – le conclusioni a cui si giunge rispondono affermativamente alla domanda di ricerca qui sopra formulata.The starting point of this dissertation is the reconstruction of the biographical and intellectual vicissitudes of the Italo-Russian Andrea Caffi (St. Petersburg 1887 - Paris 1955). Consequently, the first chapter attempts to enlighten this “very acute and very unknown author” and highlights the originality of his thought. If we can rightfully ascribe his theories to a socialist and libertarian background, he is nevertheless an author that we cannot include in any canonised theoretical-political school.
For this reason, the dissertation pursues an attempt to identify a theoretical-interpretative framework able to give Caffi the attention and the scientific rigour that he deserves without forcing interpretation.
To accomplish this goal, the research resorts to the political thought of Hannah Arendt. The second chapter is, thus, dedicated to the presentation of a distinctive aspect of Arendt’s philosophical-political theory: the idea that within the “great tradition of Western political thought”, marked by a particular conception of power as sovereignty and monopoly of violence, there is also “another tradition” able to provide a not-dominative notion of power. The twofold question that we try to answer is: could it be possible to read Andrea Caffi in the light of the Arendtian suggestion of the existence of a minority tradition of Western political philosophy? And, if so, can Caffi give back to Arendt a confirmation of the existence of this “other tradition”, also offering to the Arendtian studies a new term of comparison?
Of course, the individuation of this framework of meaning is not arbitrary. Not only significant scholars have already indicated remarkable connections between Caffi and Arendt but, historically speaking, we should also not underestimate some common friendships of the two authors and, above all, their participation in the review “politics”. Therefore, in the third (and last) chapter, the previous two parts of the dissertation converge. Ultimately we propose a posthumous dialogue between the Italian-Russian thinker and the German philosopher. By focusing this dialogue on the issue of the critique of violence and a general redefinition of politics after the totalitarian disaster – theoretically and anthropologically founding human associated life on the categories of plurality (Arendt) and sociability (Caffi) – the conclusions affirmatively answer the research question formulated above
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Verso una politica del limite? Note sul potere e l’azione nel lessico politico di Hannah Arendt
No full textThe starting point of this essay is the Arendtian critique of violence taken as the main interpretative key of the “immense polemic" entertained by the author with the Western philosophical-political tradition. Following this theoretical path, the paper intends to discuss some recurring terms in Arendt’s lexicon. Identifying in Montesquieu and then in Rosa Luxemburg two essential references for the author of The Human Condition, the essay analyzes the questions of the limit and the divisibility of power. The thesis is that, if inserted in this interpretative frame, Arendt does not belong to the liberal tradition. The theory of action, the praise of the councils and the historical experiences of self-government along with a relational and non-violent conception of power and law are elements that allow us to identify clear radical and libertarian tendencies in Hannah Arendt's thought
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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