<p>DIAPHANY<em>&nbsp;</em>is an international peer-reviewed volume&nbsp;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,&nbsp;<em>Diaphany&nbsp;</em>weds&nbsp;the vital, experiential dimension of reality to rigorous, source-based research. By embracing the principle of qualitative presence,&nbsp;<em>Diaphany&nbsp;</em>seeks to breathe life into the academic&nbsp;<em>logos</em>&nbsp;in a way that infuses philosophical&nbsp;gravitas with a sweeping, visionary leaven.</p>

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

<p>While strictly peer-reviewed, and while upholding the highest standards of academic research&mdash;including an unwavering fidelity to source materials&mdash;<em>Diaphany</em>&nbsp;is not a conventional academic journal. That is,<em>Diaphany</em>&nbsp;is not interested in so-called &lsquo;objective&rsquo;, &lsquo;dispassionate&rsquo;, or &lsquo;impersonal&rsquo; inquiry for its own sake. Rather,&nbsp;<em>Diaphany</em>&nbsp;seeks philosophers&nbsp;tempered in the fires of genuine wisdom rather than mere information; scientists&nbsp;whose work emerges as much from a fervent, personal quest as it does from the perception of inexorable, impersonal realities; and&nbsp;artists of&nbsp;<em>poēsis</em>&nbsp;and presence who make the invisible visible and the eternal tangible according to a Kandinskian &lsquo;inner necessity&rsquo; (<em>innere Notwendigkeit</em>).</p>