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Daniel Brewer, The Enlightenment past. Reconstructing eighteenth-century French thought
Full text linkRifacendosi alla lezione di Michel Foucault, Daniel Brewer studia le vicende interpretative di tematiche e autori fondamentali dell’Illuminismo francese. Coerentemente al metodo d’indagine, non solo i fenomeni letterari vengono collocati in uno spazio-tempo determinato, ma soprattutto vengono indagate le motivazioni di chi li ha letti e ne ha usufruito. Anzi, proprio la considerazione che non esiste un’interpretazione neutra, ma che il senso di un’opera – e in certi casi anche di un autore o ..
Daniel Brewer : The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France. Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing. Coll. : « Cambridge Studies in French ». 1993
No full textSokalski Alex. Daniel Brewer : The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France. Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing. Coll. : « Cambridge Studies in French ». 1993. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°26, 1994. Economie et politique. p. 655
Daniel Brewer: The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth, Century French Thought: Book Review
No full textDaniel Brewer\u27s study of the French Enlightenment-its construction, its self-fashioning, and its subsequent reconstruction in a series of national memorial performancesis heavily overladen with a kind of poetics of ruins:\u27 Ruins and monuments are everywhere here, in an almost dialectical relation: \u27\u27Alas, more beautiful is the debris of a beautiful palace;\u27 exclaims Victor Hugo (quoted p. 186), and Chapter 9, which is explicitly devoted to the theme of ruins, refers to some of the classical Enlightenment narratives of progress, from Condorcet to Turgot, as self-consciously focused on the problem of building on ruins:\u27 The reference to the past in the title, the theme of ruins, and the fairly unusual psychological dimension in much of the book are reminiscent of Futures Past, the influential collection of essays by Reinhart Koselleck, but this is not mentioned here
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
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