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Defoort, Carine (2002). “The History of Chinese Thought, Part II: editor's introduction.”, Contemporary Chinese Thought 33(4), 3-8
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Mo Zi research in the People's Republic of China
No full textOne of the Mozi research centers outside of China is at the K.U. Leuven in Belgium. The two papers translated and published in this issue were first presented at a workshop that was held there in June 2009: The Many Faces of Mozi: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of Mohist Thought. © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved.status: Publishe
All Good Things Come in Threes. A Textual Analysis of the Three-fold Structure of the Mohist Ethical 'Core Chapters'.
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The Meaning of "Ru-Mo" in Early Chinese Texts: The Blurry Boundaries between Ethical Theorists and Political Strategists.
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How to Bolster the People's Spirits: Twentieth Century ChinesePolitical, Religious and Societal Discussions on the Mohist Ghosts.
No full textIn this dissertation, 20th century Chinese interpretations of the Mohist ghosts take the center stage. These interpretations have generally been disregarded by mainstream scholarship. And yet, they testify to a wealth of information on one of the most transformative periods in Chinese history. My thesis documents all the different meanings of the Mohist ghosts for 20th century Chinese authors. In their minds, the Mohist ghosts were not necessarily a marginal, superstitious or distant addition to the Mohist science and logic, but they were considered in close relation to political reform and attempts at societal transformation. This fact has generally been overlooked by current scholarship. Looking through the prism of the Mohist ghosts, this dissertation offers a new way of looking at 20th century Chinese history, showing that Mohism and the Mohist ghosts are in fact open to multiple readings, including the religious, thehistorical and socio-political. 20th century discussions of the Mohist ghosts invariably evoke more contemporaneous socio-political concerns than historical debates. My dissertation provides a reading off the beaten track of both well-known and rare materials, showing howthese authors embedded the Mohist ghosts into the socio-political context of their own time. They either viewed the Mohist ghosts as a source of patriotism, unity, and (national) religion modelled on Western Christianity, or rejected Mohism because of belief in these ghosts, proposing adifferent path to boost national morale. Furthermore, I advance the bold hypothesis that in some instances, these discussions were imbued with political allegory. Generally, I demonstrate how an undercurrent of patriotism and bolstering the peoples spirits can be discerned in all narratives on the Mohist ghosts, ranging from the early 1900s up to the 1940s and 1950s.status: Publishe
A Way not to Follow; the Art not to Know. Inspired by Patricia De Martelaere's Work on Taoism
No full text© 2015 by Tijdschrift voor Filosofie. All rights reserved. Patricia De Martelaere (1957-2009) was a Belgian (and Flemish) author, philosopher, and practitioner of shadowboxing. She wrote an inspiring little book on Taoism that stresses the physical, energetic, and martial aspects of its practice. This paper elaborates upon three central ideas from her work, turns them into a direction that she did not envision, and applies them to a critical-historical interpretation of the Taoist texts that she elaborates upon: an active way of non-knowing, the awareness of a shared ground, and the intellectual fertility resulting from this approach. By occasionally putting aside certain assumptions from contemporary research on early Chinese Taoist philosophers - with respect to books, authors, philosophical consistency, schools, etc. - we can offer alternative accounts to the now dominant forms of interpretation. This approach does not take a position in favor of or against the existence or importance of such entities as "books", "philosophers", or "schools" in pre-imperial China. Nor does it promote an alternative for the dominant narratives. It simply allows for a degree of openness with respect to these narratives, thereby allowing for greater nuance that is at risk of being suffocated in the current context of academic philosophy.status: Publishe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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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