Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)
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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).
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Book Title: Morphogenesis of Symbolic Forms: Meaning in Music, Art, Religion, and Language
Authors: Wolfgang Wildgen
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25651-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25650-9Published: 02 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25653-0Published: 03 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25651-6Published: 01 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2195-1934
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complexity, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Applied Linguistics, Arts, Religious Studies, general