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In the present book, the starting line is defined by a morphogenetic perspective on human communication and culture. The focus is on visual communication, music, religion (myth), and language, i.e., on the ¿symbolic forms¿ at the heart of human cultures (Ernst Cassirer). The term ¿morphogenesis¿ has more precisely the meaning given by René Thom (1923-2002) in his book ¿Morphogenesis and Structural Stability¿ (1972) and the notions of ¿self-organization¿ and cooperation of subsystems in the ¿Synergetics¿ of Hermann Haken (1927- ). The naturalization of communication and cultural phenomena is the favored strategy, but the major results of the involved disciplines (art history, music theory, religious science, and linguistics) are respected.

Visual art from the Paleolithic to modernity stands for visual communication. The present book focuses on studies of classical painting and sculpture (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, William Turner, and Henry Moore) and modern art (e.g., Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys). Musical morphogenesis embraces classical music (from J. S. Bach to Arnold Schönberg) and political songwriting (Bob Dylan, Leonhard Cohen). The myths of pre-literary societies show the effects of self-organization in the re-assembly (bricolage) of traditions. Classical polytheistic and monotheistic religions demonstrate the unfolding of basic germs (religious attractors) and their reduction in periods of crisis, the self-organization of complex religious networks, and rationalized macro-structures (in theologies). Significant tendencies are analyzed in the case of Buddhism and Christianism. Eventually, a holistic view of symbolic communication and human culture emerges based on state-of-the-art in evolutionary biology, cognitive science, linguistics, and semiotics (philosophy of symbolic forms).

Zusammenfassung

Presents a morphogenetic, dynamic view of human communication, culture, and symbolic media

Initiates a new concept of cultural and symbolic philosophy based on principles developed in the natural sciences

Focuses on visual communication, music, and religion (myth), i.e., on the symbolic forms beyond language

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- From sensorial capacities to symbolic forms (with particular reference to odor and color).- The morphogenesis of symbolic forms in music.- The morphogenesis of visual symbolic forms (art, architecture, and urban structures).- The morphogenesis and self-organization of myth and religion.- The morphogenesis of language and morphodynamic grammar.- Peirce's semiotics, Cassirer's philosophy of culture, and the epistemology of semiotics.- Final reflections

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Technik allgemein
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xiii 208 S. 29 s/w Illustr. 12 farbige Illustr. 208 p. 41 illus. 12 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783031256509
ISBN-10:	3031256506
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wildgen, Wolfgang
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	241 x 160 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Wolfgang Wildgen
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.03.2023
Gewicht:	0,506 kg