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Dal grido animale al silenzio dolente. Una vergogna senza colpe
No full textThe author traces the theme of violence against women and the different way of living and metabolizing
shame by male figures through the emblematically same and different stories of Sufiya and Lucie narrated
by J. M. Coetzee and S. Rushdie. Although set in two very different realities, Pakistan and South Africa, the
condition of the two women is very similar, assimilated by the violence suffered and by the stigma of shame,
understood Hegelianally as pathos of separateness, as the emergence of the original fear of the finite, which
the man wants to overcome through procreation
Atomism and the reasoning by a non-classical logic
No full textOften, in the original scientific writings, a double negated statement (DNS) is not equivalent to his corresponding positive one; that means the inferring law ¬¬A → A does not apply. Recent studies recognized in the failure of this logical law the borderline between classical and non-classical logics. Original writings by classical chemists dealing with the problem of atomism are particularly characterized by the occurrences of DNSs. An historical case, Avogadro's contribution to atomism (i.e. the well-known hypothesis about the constitution of gases), is here analyzed in such terms. It turns out that, in order to support his ideas, Avogadro suggested several ad absurdum proofs, indeed a way of reasoning typically linked to the use of DNSs. Copyright © 1999 by HYLE and Antonino Drago & Romina Oliva
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
La violenza dell'oblio
No full textI volti della violenza non necessariamente si presentano nella forma eclatante della persecuzione e della tortura. La violenza puo' rivelarsi nella forma dell'indifferenza verso l'Altro o della negazione della pluralita' delle configurazioni esistenziali e culturali
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
L'imprevedibile come risorsa
No full textAs knowledge grows, the progress of science despite promises and reassurances does not provide certainty. The contents of science are increasingly specialised and closer to deciphering human life forms. Knowing the “what is” is always accompanied by governing the “what is known”, the critical reflection of culture as the human artifice par excellence. Culture also includes the unproductive philosophy, which does not offer conquests, nor absolute truths. Can the thought in the search for meaning resist the widespread blindness of science as technology, avoid the shipwreck of common living and the exhaustion of humanity's creative resources? Perhaps only by bringing attention back to the “minor”, to the unpredictable which, despite everything, is the greatest danger and checkmate for the new mythology of technicians, experts and programmers
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