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The night of Gethsemane By Massimo Recalcati, Einaudi, 2019
Full text linkThe book by psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati, The night of Gethsemane, p. 78, Einaudi publisher, year of publication 2019, aims at highlighting the radically human aspect that Jesus shows when, in the interminable night of Gethsemane, His life experience proves that typical emptiness of the one who experiences solitude, betrayal and abandonment.
The author, through nine chapters, guides the reader along a path aimed at capturing the actual human turmoil that characterizes the existential journey of Jesus, who seems to be able to surrender himself to his story only after having faced with difficulty the controversies of his own existence
Book review The need of think
Full text linkIn the book by the theologian and philosopher Vito Mancuso, entitled “Il
bisogno di pensare”, p. 184, Garzanti editor, 2017, it is clear the intention of
reflecting on big themes of life using an exquisitely socratic method, already
starting from the title of the book and from the choice of dedicating it to
Philosophy.
The author invites the reader to reflect with him, starting from some
questions: what can we rely on to find a direction and support? Do we know
toward what we direct our vital energy?
Vito Mancuso, right away, declares to belong to that type of people who can’t
forbear to think because they need it
Book review: The four masters By Vito Mancuso. Ed. by Garzanti, 2020
Full text linkThe theologian and philosopher Mancuso wrote a text entitled The four masters, p. 509, published by Garzanti, in which he presents the lives and teachings of the four most influential figures in human history: Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, and Jesus.
His book is presented as a journey in search of the human in man, which the author takes from the novel by Vasilij Grossman, Life and Destiny. Starting from the question of what is the human in man, Mancuso proposes that it is an empty space that allows us to always go beyond our tendencies. This space, characterized by indeterminacy, creates the conditions for freedom, and the human in man emerges when one chooses to direct one's freedom towards goodness and justice
Book Review - The Bible as Dream
Full text linkIn the text written by the Jungian analyst Murray Stein, entitled "The Bible As Dream", p. 209, published by Chiron Publications, 2018, the author makes use of the discoveries of Jung in the teological and biblical field to give life to a work that is both original and fascinating.
As is evident already starting from the title, Stein decides to interpret the Bible through psychological lenses. By trying to offer such a reading, the Author suggests that the interpretative key can only be the same used for dream interpretations.
From this point of observation it would be possible to detect elements from the unconscious in the Bible
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
Book Review - The Game
Full text linkIn the text elaborated by the writer and essayist Alessandro Baricco, "The Game", p. 324, published by Einaudi, 2018, the author invites us to reflect on the great stages of history that have accompanied man in his evolution from Homo analogicus to Homo digitalis.
Although the digital revolution has followed a rather complex process, Baricco tries to trace the salient points that have constituted this change of scenery.
A radical change in some ways but, in fact, after a careful analysis also shows some imperturbable (perhaps archetypal?) peculiarities of man: whether it is Homo analogicus or digitalis, in fact, what emerges are the typical traits of a Homo ludens
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
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