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‘Mysterium Secretum et Silentiosum: Praying the Apophatic Self’, in David Lewin, Simon D. Podmore, and Duane Williams (eds.), Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of God
No full textApophatic communion takes place “in the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence”, in a silence “beyond assertion and denial” ; in other words, in secret. But where is it that this union ‘takes place’? It is a ‘place’, metaphorically speaking, which is beyond all affirmation and denial of ‘place’. This ‘place’ is the desert, the abyss, the place where there is no-thing, nothing but God beyond ‘God’. It is beyond place, and beyond experience; and yet the union within apophasis and contemplative prayer takes place, metaphorically, in a secret interior sanctum, unknown to both self and other. A sanctuary in which God dwells but which “no door is required to enter.”
Yet while this ‘place’ of union may lie beyond all creatureliness, I suggest that there nonetheless remains significant affirmation of a ‘centre’ or ‘ground’ to the self (albeit de-centred and ungrounded). While the self-will is emptied out to the point of death, there still remains a ‘place’, somehow ‘apart’ from the world, in which the restless soul, the apophatic self, is able to find itself resting in God. While I take this as an affirmation of attention to a form of interiority which is dangerously disregarded in much of contemporary post/modern culture, I am also mindful of the scandal and threat (even offense) the secret of such interiority poses to exteriority. In light of this, one might ask to what extent is it possible to affirm such mystical interiority in the face of post/modern philosophy’s privileging of alterity? Or might apophasis actually offer, as I intimate here, a potent resource for disentangling the problematic divisions between ‘self’ and ‘other’ which render the notion of the secret, particularly a ‘religious secret’, such a threat
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
Simond [Simon d. ?] (illustrateur non-identifié 18..-19..) : signature [1900]
No full textSimond [Simon d. ?] : signature d’un illustrateur non-identifié ; une seule illustration repérée au 23/12/2016 “Un chouette copain” (Montcorge / Gramet & Maader / Ondet GO2615), titre inconnu du catalogue BNF, datation par cotage 1900 (Devriès & Lesure)
Simond [Simon d. ?] (illustrateur non-identifié 18..-19..) : signature [1900]
No full textSimond [Simon d. ?] : signature d’un illustrateur non-identifié ; une seule illustration repérée au 23/12/2016 “Un chouette copain” (Montcorge/Gramet & Maader / Ondet GO2615), titre inconnu du catalogue BNF, datation par cotage 1900 (Devriès & Lesure)
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