- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART 1: Semiotic Foundations of the Cultural Sciences
- 1 Cassirer and Symbolic Forms
- 1.1. Unity and diversity of modes of objectification
- 1.2. The harmonics of forms: internalization and exportation
- 1.3. From the social sciences to the natural sciences and back again: the example of statistics
- 1.4. Conclusion
- 1.5. References
- 2 Leroi-Gourhan and the Birth of the Symbolic Function
- 2.1. The image of man
- 2.2. The human body
- 2.3. The hand and the tool
- 2.4. Technique and language
- 2.5. Language and visualization
- 2.6. Memory and history
- 2.7. Conclusion
- 2.8. References
- 3 Simondon, Language and Technology
- 3.1. The precedence of technology over language
- 3.2. Simondon’s technological vocabulary
- 3.3. For a diagram of the technical lineages
- 3.4. Conclusion
- 3.5. References
- PART 2: Hermeneutics of Science, Hermeneutical Sciences
- 4 On the Philosophy of Mathematics: Reflections on “Making Science”, Based on Cavaillès
- 4.1. Mathematics, a precondition of rational philosophy
- 4.2. Reasoning by the absurd and excluded middle
- 4.3. The final causes
- 4.4. “Universally true” judgments
- 4.5. The linguistic problem of mathematics
- 4.6. The epistemological break: the explanatory versus comprehensive method
- 4.7. The understanding
- 4.8. Mathematics as becoming
- 4.9. Truth and metalanguage
- 4.10. The theoretical in difficulty, an aspect of the epistemological shift in linguistics
- 4.11. References
- 5 The Semiotic Articulation of Textual Meaning: Significance, Signification, Designation and Expression
- 5.1. The articulation of meaning according to three semiotic relations: signification, designation and expression
- 5.2. Significance and meaning
- 5.3. References
- 6 Semiotics of Cultures and Theoretical Hybridities: For a Renewal of Thought
- 6.1. Theories: cultural objects in transfer
- 6.2. Definitional reminder
- 6.3. Status of the arts and religious sciences
- 6.4. Geometric plasticity of theories
- 6.5. Theorists and the evolution of theories
- 6.6. Polysemy of cultural fact and scientific rigor
- 6.7. The return of diachrony
- 6.8. Conclusion
- 6.9. References
- PART 3: Literature and Arts Sciences
- 7 Challenges of Non-logocentric Semiotics of Cultures: Explorations Based on Music and the Notion of Significativity
- 7.1. Interpretative action, hermeneutic science and the general hermeneutization of the sciences
- 7.2. Hermeneutics of non-verbal objects: a challenge for the semiotics of cultures, a benefit for thinking about the reinsertion of a theory of meaning into a theory of stakes
- 7.3. Significativity
- 7.4. Music and the hermeneutics of significativity
- 7.5. Modal hermeneutics and engagement strategy
- 7.6. Science of the arts and the esthetic intention of the semiotics of cultures
- 7.7. References
- 8 The Roles of a Semiotics of the Arts: Working Hypotheses for Overcoming the Shortcomings of the Past
- 8.1. Some remedies for previous theoretical abuses
- 8.2. Some remedies for the universalization brought about by postmodernism
- 8.3. Some remedies to institutionalized nominalism of art
- 8.4. Some methodological remedies
- 8.5. References
- Conclusion: Making Sense Between Science and Ethics
- List of Authors
- Index
- End User License Agreement
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