Mystagogy Dionysius Areopagita and his Christian predecessors

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Creation, the Word, and Relationships: “The Void” and Implicit Christian Theology in Calvino’s Later Fiction

In Italo Calvino’s fiction, the concept of “void” is frequently mentioned, yet its definition remains ambiguous, shifting from the void before the Big Bang, to the void of the writer’s blank page, to the existential void within human beings. Furthermore, Calvino writes from an agnostic standpoint, yet much of his thought seems to be linked to Christian themes such as the beginning of the world, the meaning of the word—understood as language, literature or reason—and human relationship. In this paper/presentation, Calvino’s later fiction (1965-1985) is analyzed for instances of the concept of void, in an attempt to identify one or multiple meanings of it, and for instances of the aforementioned Christian concepts, in order to investigate possible interrelationships between the two subcategories of his thought. Calvino’s concept of the void is closely tied to these Christian concepts. While Calvino shares some elements of Communism and of Eastern philosophy, much of his thought on the Christian concepts is consistent with the teachings of the early church fathers on the same subjects

Representation of the affine superalgebras A(4)(0, 2l), A(2)(0, 2l - 1) and their subalgebras A2l(2), A2l - 1(2) by vertex operators

The structure theory of standard modules of affine Lie algebras, given by J. Lepowsky and R. L. Wilson in [LW], is stated for representations of affine superalgebras. As an application, the standard modules of level one for the superalgebras A(4)(0, 2l), A(2)(0, 2l - 1) and their affine subalgebras A2l(2), A2l - 1(2) are constructed explicitly. These modules are realized as the tensor product of symmetric and exterior algebras with an irreducible representation of a certain finite 2-group. The affine superalgebra acts on this space by tensor products of vertex operators, operators of Clifford type, and elements of the 2-group. As a corollary, the spin representations of the Lie algebras Bl, and Dl are obtained from the 2-group representation.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27180/1/0000178.pd