Le professeur Gemelli a bien voulu rédiger è l'intention de ce volume un mémoire original sur la structure du langage, analysés par les mélhodes électroacoustiques modernes. Dans l'esprit de Dialectica, pour faciliter un dialogue entre ce spécialiste de l'expression vocale et le philosophe, nous avons dê renoncer è publier la première partie du mémoire, d'intérêt essentiellement technique, consacrée aux variations des voyelles, aux différences individuelles du langage, aux limites de leurs variations, ainsi qu'aux variations de l'accent tonique et de (...) l'intensilé. Les trois derniers chapitres, consacrés a l'expression significative du langage, è la structure des mots et des phrases, ainsi qu'aux conclusions géneratés de l'auteur, ont une grande valeur dialectique. Its montrent qu'è l'organisation motrice du langage correspond, chez celui qui le perçoit, une organisation acoustique adéquate. La bibliographic complète des travaux de l'auteur, è la fin du mémoire, permettra au lecteur de compléter la documentation dont il pourrait avoir besoin pour une discussion sur ce sufet. Réd. (shrink)

M. Laura Gemelli Marciano ist Titularprofessorin für Klassische Philologie an der Universität Zürich.

The so-called “Scientific Revolution” is the result of a complex interaction between the world of ideas and that of concrete human activity with the aim of discovering the mysteries of nature. Not only books but also notebooks mediate this dialectical relationship: in this way, the complex features of a theoretical system can coexist with the detailed observations of everyday natural phenomena (like water drops, or burning candles), in order to test the foundations of a whole philosophy of nature in the (...) micro-world. Bacon himself suggested leaving general observations aside in order to reach closer to phenomena: Isaac Beeckman, in the isolation of his Journal, notes in chronological order his own laboratory and reading experiences, together with his meditations, producing an intellectual account of great cultural and scientific interest, discovered by Cornelis De Waard in 1905, in the Provincial Library of Zeeland [Middelburg]. Beeckman also owned some of Francis Bacon’s major works: from some of the notebook annotations presented in this article it is possible to see that Bacon’s explanations of simple natural phenomena did not always agree with the emerging physico-mathematical turn. Bacon is blamed for the use of old-fashioned categories, like sympathies and occult qualities, which need to be replaced by a fully corpuscular, mathematical and geometrical mechanical philosophy. (shrink)

The Cinematography in Whisky (2004) is essential in the directors’ efforts to explore existential isolation. The incompleteness of knowledge, the uncrossable gaps between people, and the impossibility of communion among individuals are some of the themes explored in this film, directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. These are mostly absent in the scholarship about the movie, which tends to focus on the concept of small cinema. The present text aims to build on these discussions to propose a reading (...) of Whisky as a work of art that, although made within a very specific context of production, is not limited by it.Keywords: Cinematography. Uruguayan cinema. Small cinema. (shrink)