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Diagrams and Gestures

Mathematics, Philosophy, and Linguistics

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Editors:
  1. Francesco La Mantia

    1. Department of Humanities, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  2. Charles Alunni

    1. Centre d’Archives en Philosophie, Histoire et Édition des Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

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  3. Fernando Zalamea

    1. Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

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  • Develops an interdisciplinary approach to diagrammatic gesture from a theoretical side
  • Provides an up-to-date picture of the interplay between highly theory-laden notions like “diagram” and “gesture”
  • Combines rigor and didactic clarity

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Almost an Introduction. From the Basilar Notions to the Legacy of Gilles Châtelet

    • Francesco La Mantia
    Pages 1-65

  4. Diagrams and Gestures: Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. The Diagram: Demon of Proof

      • Charles Alunni
      Pages 169-189

    3. Gesture, a New Tool for a Different Vision of Synthetic Reasoning

      • Giovanni Maddalena
      Pages 191-205

    4. Diagrammatic Gestures of Friendship in Plato’s Meno

      • Rocco Gangle
      Pages 207-224

    5. The Act of Writing

      • Vilém Flusser, Charles Alunni
      Pages 225-241

    6. The Diagram on Stage: Movement, Gesture and Writing

      • Catherine Paoletti
      Pages 243-256
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About this book

Drawing a line, and then another, and another. Go back from the lines to the movements they capture and see gestures in them: not spatial displacements, but modes of knowledge that pass through the exercise of the body. Discovering something new in a gesture: the line that contracts into a point or the point that expands into a zone, perhaps sinking into a hole. Thus experiencing a diagram: a becoming other inscribed in the novelty of the gesture and in the changes of the forms it shapes. This and much more is discussed in the essays gathered in Diagrams and Gestures. Resulting from trans-disciplinary work between mathematicians, philosophers, linguists and semioticians, the volume delivers an up-to-date account of the most valuable research on the connections between gesture and diagram. As one of the most important themes in contemporary thought, the study of these connections poses a challenge for the future: to elaborate a theory that is equal to new and stimulating research methodologies. We call this theory a philosophy of diagrammatic gestures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Francesco La Mantia

  • Centre d’Archives en Philosophie, Histoire et Édition des Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

    Charles Alunni

  • Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

    Fernando Zalamea

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diagrams and Gestures

  • Book Subtitle: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Linguistics

  • Editors: Francesco La Mantia, Charles Alunni, Fernando Zalamea

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29111-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29110-4Published: 17 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29113-5Due: 18 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29111-1Published: 16 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2195-1934

  • Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 440

  • Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Applied Linguistics, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Logic

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