Sharing the "historicist challenge to analytic philosophy" (Glock) we investigate the p... more Sharing the "historicist challenge to analytic philosophy" (Glock) we investigate the philosophical production (and, to a lesser extent, some non-philosophical works as well) on Ludwig Wittgenstein from a distant reading perspective. First, we provide a description of the "Wittgensteinian field" by analyzing several data provided by the Philosopher's Index, an electronic bibliographic database especially devoted to philosophy. Then we analyze these data by using statistical tools (such as for example topic modeling) and we interpret the results historically and sociologically, along the lines of Bourdieu on Heidegger, Lamont on Derrida, Gross on Rorty, and Collins on the whole philosophical tradition.
We at Sociologica are proud that in the eleven years since our first issue we have been a free, o... more We at Sociologica are proud that in the eleven years since our first issue we have been a free, openaccess, online journal. Starting from this number (2018/1) Sociologica will be issued by a new publisher, the University of Bologna. With this change we take advantage of new publishing technologies at the oldest university in the world. Some aspects of the journal’s functioning will change immediately but will not be apparent to the reader. Better search engine optimization, for example, will insure that our authors’ work will be more widely recognized; and more efficient manuscript processing will make things easier for our editorial staff and our manuscript reviewers. Other new features such as a new side bar that allows readers to extract metadata are now in place to immediately benefit our readers. In the future we will exploit technologies provided by our new publisher so that our authors can include visual, audio, and video materials in the scholarly products that they publish ...
ABSTRACT The article addresses issues of interpretation and selection as they are dealt with in c... more ABSTRACT The article addresses issues of interpretation and selection as they are dealt with in current debates on the nature, the content, and the effects of processes and mechanisms of canonization in sociology. It makes a case for a more empirically grounded and sociologically sensitive approach to these issues, drawing from recent research programmes in digital humanities (e.g. distant reading) and insisting on the benefits of cumulative case histories of individual scholars with their patterns of social relations in different countries and languages. The case of gender inclusion/exclusion is focused upon as both exemplary and symptomatic. Finally, the article introduces to the following five articles, presenting briefly their contents and ratio.
Sharing the "historicist challenge to analytic philosophy" (Glock) we investigate the p... more Sharing the "historicist challenge to analytic philosophy" (Glock) we investigate the philosophical production (and, to a lesser extent, some non-philosophical works as well) on Ludwig Wittgenstein from a distant reading perspective. First, we provide a description of the "Wittgensteinian field" by analyzing several data provided by the Philosopher's Index, an electronic bibliographic database especially devoted to philosophy. Then we analyze these data by using statistical tools (such as for example topic modeling) and we interpret the results historically and sociologically, along the lines of Bourdieu on Heidegger, Lamont on Derrida, Gross on Rorty, and Collins on the whole philosophical tradition.
We at Sociologica are proud that in the eleven years since our first issue we have been a free, o... more We at Sociologica are proud that in the eleven years since our first issue we have been a free, openaccess, online journal. Starting from this number (2018/1) Sociologica will be issued by a new publisher, the University of Bologna. With this change we take advantage of new publishing technologies at the oldest university in the world. Some aspects of the journal’s functioning will change immediately but will not be apparent to the reader. Better search engine optimization, for example, will insure that our authors’ work will be more widely recognized; and more efficient manuscript processing will make things easier for our editorial staff and our manuscript reviewers. Other new features such as a new side bar that allows readers to extract metadata are now in place to immediately benefit our readers. In the future we will exploit technologies provided by our new publisher so that our authors can include visual, audio, and video materials in the scholarly products that they publish ...
ABSTRACT The article addresses issues of interpretation and selection as they are dealt with in c... more ABSTRACT The article addresses issues of interpretation and selection as they are dealt with in current debates on the nature, the content, and the effects of processes and mechanisms of canonization in sociology. It makes a case for a more empirically grounded and sociologically sensitive approach to these issues, drawing from recent research programmes in digital humanities (e.g. distant reading) and insisting on the benefits of cumulative case histories of individual scholars with their patterns of social relations in different countries and languages. The case of gender inclusion/exclusion is focused upon as both exemplary and symptomatic. Finally, the article introduces to the following five articles, presenting briefly their contents and ratio.
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