Diaphany A Journal And Nocturne [Paperback]

DIAPHANY?is an international peer-reviewed volume?dedicated to the living confluence of poetic, phenomenological and empirical perceptions of reality. Drinking deeply from both the arts and the sciences, and then dissolving their boundaries,?Diaphany?weds?the vital, experiential dimension of reality to rigorous, source-based research. By embracing the principle of qualitative presence,?Diaphany?seeks to breathe life into the academic?logos?in a way that infuses philosophical?gravitas with a sweeping, visionary leaven.

The concept of diaphany is drawn from the work of German poet andKulturphilosoph, Jean Gebser. For Gebser, transparency (Durchsichtigkeit) is that which renders both darkness and light present.?Diaphany?is designed accordingly as both a?journal?(from French?jour, day) and a?nocturnea hymn to the night. Diaphany thus conceived is a matrix not only for the rational structures of consciousness (wakeful?logos?and light) but also for the pre-rational structures of consciousness (myth, dream, darkness).?In synthesising Enlightenment as well as?Romantik?streams of culture,?Diaphany?seeks to render both sides of the human experience more integrally present.

While strictly peer-reviewed, and while upholding the highest standards of academic researchincluding an unwavering fidelity to source materialsDiaphany?is not a conventional academic journal. That is,Diaphany?is not interested in so-called objective, dispassionate, or impersonal inquiry for its own sake. Rather,?Diaphany?seeks philosophers?tempered in the fires of genuine wisdom rather than mere information; scientists?whose work emerges as much from a fervent, personal quest as it does from the perception of inexorable, impersonal realities; and?artists of?posis?and presence who make the invisible visible and the eternal tanlT