Overview
- Includes testimonials from scientists and intellectuals who accompanied Jean Petitot on his scientific journey
- Presents a trace of 50 years of scientific work in the various fields of morphology, semiotics and cognitive science
- Is a Festschrift in honor of Jean Petitot, one of the most influential French mathematicians and philosophers
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)
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Keywords
- Morphologenesis
- Cognitive Science
- Morphology
- Structuralism
- Semiotics
- Jean Petitot
About this book
Jean Petitot is a polyhedric thinker whose contributions has been fundamental in a number of disciplines, such as epistemology, morphodynamics, differential geometry, structural semiotics, neurogeometry, phenomenology, linguistics, cognitive grammars, the theory of catastrophes, social sciences, literary studies, and aesthetics. This book is a homage to his huge contribution about the main concepts of morphogenesis and meaning that constitute the center of gravity around which Petitotian reflection revolves and returns.
The scientific path of Jean Petitot develops between these two poles, topology and meaning. At stake it was to challenge the hiatus separating the exact sciences from the humanities that was the main point of the Petitot seminar of EHESS Epistemology of Models. By designing the appropriate qualitative dynamics between the two poles, form and meaning, it is possible to understand the Saussurian sign in structural semiotics, or the Greimasian semiotic square fordeep narrative structures or even the canonical formula of the myth of Lévi Strauss in structural anthropology. These are just few results in applying the theory of catastrophes to the emergence of meaning. The book is a collection of testimonies by distinguished authors who worked extensively with Jean Petitot in the different fields of Mathematics, Neurogeometry, Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Epistemology.
An extensive bibliography of Petitot’s work is also presented.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Morphology, Neurogeometry, Semiotics
Book Subtitle: A Festschrift in Honor of Jean Petitot 's 80th Birthday
Editors: Alessandro Sarti
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
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 license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51992-5Due: 07 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51995-6Due: 07 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51993-2Due: 07 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2195-1934
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 302
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour