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In the reality of that agitated sea which we call “history” Confronti intorno a Meaning in History di Karl Löwith
Get PDF“L’interpretazione della storia” - scrive Karl Löwith nel suo Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History - “è in ultima analisi un tentativo di comprendere il senso dell’agire e del patire degli uomini in essa”: in queste parole si possono scorgere in nuce tutti i temi che egli sviluppa nel suo Achsenperiode intellettuale, che occupa gli anni a cavallo della seconda guerra mondiale. Gli studi giovanili su Nietzsche e, successivamente, sulla sinistra hegeliana e sul nichilismo europeo conducono infatti il filosofo tedesco a interrogare, pochi anni dopo gli orrori dei lager e della bomba atomica, il senso della storia e la filosofia della storia. Ed è proprio alla luce degli studi sul fenomeno del nichilismo che la caduta della domanda sul senso di fronte alla quale si trova l’uomo moderno assume tutto il suo spessore tragico. La perdita del senso, infatti, conseguente alla crisi delle risposte totalizzanti della ragione moderna, rischia così di trasformarsi sempre più in una atrofizzazione della capacità a porsi la domanda sul senso: la prospettiva della stessa mancanza di un senso si profila come quella “malattia mortale” incombente sull’Occidente abbozzata da Nietzsche nel suo frammento di Lenzerheide. Partendo dunque dalla perdita di fiducia nel progresso e nella ragione della modernità che assicurava soluzioni organizzate entro un orizzonte di un significato onnicomprensivo e positivo, il presente studio intende esporre l’indagine condotta da Löwith sul senso e sul significato della storia. Al fine di esplorare tale percorso, che si snoda tra il rischio del nichilismo e processi di secolarizzazione, la nostra indagine verrà condotta inserendo il filosofo tedesco all’interno di un inedito coro di voci - R. Niebuhr e J. Taubes ma anche N. Berdjaev - che, in alcuni casi addirittura nei medesimi anni, interrogarono la filosofia della storia accomunati dalla medesima urgenza filosofica della ricerca di un senso storico."In his work 'Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History,' Karl Löwith writes, 'The interpretation of history is ultimately an attempt to understand the meaning of human actions and suffering within it.' These words contain the essence of the themes he develops during his intellectual 'Achsenperiode,' which spans the years around the Second World War. His early studies on Nietzsche and later on the Hegelian Left and European nihilism lead the German philosopher to interrogate, a few years after the horrors of the concentration camps and the atomic bomb, the sense of history and the philosophy of history. It is precisely in the light of his studies on the phenomenon of nihilism that the collapse of the question of meaning confronting the modern man takes on its full tragic depth.
The loss of meaning, a consequence of the crisis of the all-encompassing answers of modern reason, risks increasingly turning into an atrophy of the capacity to pose the question of meaning. The prospect of the very lack of meaning looms as the 'deadly disease' impending over the West, as outlined by Nietzsche in his Lenzerheide fragment. Starting from the loss of confidence in the progress and reason of modernity, which provided organized solutions within a horizon of optimistic and positive meaning, this study aims to expose Löwith's inquiry into the sense and significance of history.
In order to explore this path, which meanders between the risk of nihilism and processes of secularization, our investigation will be conducted by placing the German philosopher within a novel chorus of voices - R. Niebuhr and J. Taubes but also N. Berdjaev - who, in some cases, even in the same years, questioned the philosophy of history, united by the same philosophical urgency of the search for a historical meaning.
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – Filosofia zoologica e altri naturalia [a cura di Giulio Barsanti Milano-Udine, Mimesis 2020]
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