Morphogenesis of symbolic forms : meaning in music, art, religion, and language / Wolfgang Wildgen.
2023
BH39 .W55 2023
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Title
Morphogenesis of symbolic forms : meaning in music, art, religion, and language / Wolfgang Wildgen.
Author
Wildgen, Wolfgang, author.
ISBN
9783031256516 (electronic bk.)
3031256514 (electronic bk.)
9783031256509
3031256514 (electronic bk.)
9783031256509
Published
Cham : Springer, [2023]
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English
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1 online resource (219 p.).
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10.1007/978-3-031-25651-6 doi
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BH39 .W55 2023
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700.1
Summary
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 Ren 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 Schnberg) 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).
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Table of Contents
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
Peirces semiotics, Cassirers philosophy of culture, and the epistemology of semiotics
Final reflections.
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
Peirces semiotics, Cassirers philosophy of culture, and the epistemology of semiotics
Final reflections.