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Il concetto di dignità nella cultura occidentale / The Concept of Dignity in Western Culture
No full textThis volume gathers interventions on the issue of dignity, understood both as a universal ethical claim and a legal principle common to the constitutional traditions of Western countries. Interventions of Giliberti, Morozzo della Rocca, Morondo Taramundi, Moroni, Trifirò, van Reijsen, Stefanovic, Morisco, Murphy, Fabi, Martella
Garibaldi and the British Cult of ‘Muscular Christianity’
Get PDFThe essay looks at A.G. Henty’s use of the myth of Garibaldi in his 1901 adventure novel Out With Garibaldi. The Italian hero is recast by Henty in the English tradition of “muscular Christianity” of a loyal citizen fighting for fatherland, who is at the same time anti-spiritual and anti-intellectual. His physical features too – strong, blond, blue-eyed – make him the typical Hentian hero opposing all kinds of tyranny. The essay shows how “muscular Christianity assimilate the figure of Garibaldi and analyses the way other Italian characters are still portrayed ultimately needing the guidance of a true-bred British boy. Henty’s unconditional insistence on British superiority in Out With Garibaldi, reflects an imperial theme, and the culture out of which it grew
Euclid, Geometry and Nature
No full textA pedagogical treatment is given on how the euclidean geometry can be used to describe complex and fractal shapes found in nature
The Case and the Canon. Anomalies, discontinuities, metaphors between science and literature
No full textMaterial or immaterial artefacts are a way of channelling the human creative
thrust and of communicating with long lasting messages. This is a dynamic
process where a set of rules forming a theoretical body, the canon, is pro-
gressively established in every sphere of human activity. The canon fixes the
guidelines, which must be respected in order to produce a new artefact or
theoretical work. From time to time a non conventional artwork or discovery
requires a revision of the existing canon, since it cannot fit within it, and
eventually a new canon is established. As a paradigmatic example we might
consider the theory of perspective in painting introduced by Piero della Fran-
cesca, which changed the canon of the figurative arts. Physics, life sciences,
literature and other disciplines offer several examples of discoveries which could
not be adjusted to within the existing canon and consequently required a deep
revision of their theoretical framework and the formulation of a new canon. This
volume collects essays, on science and literature, which illustrate some para-
digmatic cases, whose impact was so strong as to impose a transition to new
canons. The evolution of science and arts appears to be a smooth process with
jumps, which correspond to critical events and has some similarities with the
evolution of species. The evolution of physics for instance can be depicted as a
series of concentric circles corresponding to theories whose range of applic-
ability has progressively extended, without contradicting the previous ones
within their realm of validity
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
Mr Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson: interfacing science and fiction in the "Sacred Canon"
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