Preface ixAstrid GUILLAUME and Lia KURTS-WÖSTEIntroduction xxixFrançois RASTIERPart 1. Semiotic Foundations of the Cultural Sciences 1Chapter 1. Cassirer and Symbolic Forms 3Jean LASSÈGUE1.1. Unity and diversity of modes of objectification 31.1.1. Modes of objectification in the transcendental tradition 31.1.2. The geometric objectification crisis 51.2. The harmonics of forms: internalization and exportation 81.2.1. Interdisciplinarity of the transformation group concept 81.2.2. Beyond the transformation group 101.3. From the social sciences to the natural sciences and back again: the example of statistics 121.3.1. The internal historical transformation of the statistical paradigm 131.3.2. Back to social sciences 151.4. Conclusion 151.5. References 15Chapter 2. Leroi-Gourhan and the Birth of the Symbolic Function 17Arild UTAKER2.1. The image of man 172.2. The human body 202.3. The hand and the tool 232.4. Technique and language 252.5. Language and visualization 282.6. Memory and history 312.7. Conclusion 332.8. References 34Chapter 3. Simondon, Language and Technology 35Vincent BONTEMS3.1. The precedence of technology over language 363.2. Simondon's technological vocabulary 383.3. For a diagram of the technical lineages 393.4. Conclusion 413.5. References 42Part 2. Hermeneutics of Science, Hermeneutical Sciences 45Chapter 4. On the Philosophy of Mathematics: Reflections on "Making Science", Based on Cavaillès 47Franck NEVEU4.1. Mathematics, a precondition of rational philosophy 474.2. Reasoning by the absurd and excluded middle 494.3. The final causes 504.4. "Universally true" judgments 514.5. The linguistic problem of mathematics 524.6. The epistemological break: the explanatory versus comprehensive method 534.7. The understanding 544.8. Mathematics as becoming 564.9. Truth and metalanguage 584.10. The theoretical in difficulty, an aspect of the epistemological shift in linguistics 594.11. References 61Chapter 5. The Semiotic Articulation of Textual Meaning: Significance, Signification, Designation and Expression 63Régis MISSIRE5.1. The articulation of meaning according to three semiotic relations: signification, designation and expression 655.1.1. The relation of signification 655.1.2. Designation 675.1.3. Relation of expression 685.2. Significance and meaning 705.2.1. Significance and signification 715.2.2. Significance and designation 745.2.3. Significance and expression 765.3. References 78Chapter 6. Semiotics of Cultures and Theoretical Hybridities: For a Renewal of Thought 81Astrid GUILLAUME6.1. Theories: cultural objects in transfer 836.2. Definitional reminder 856.3. Status of the arts and religious sciences 876.4. Geometric plasticity of theories 886.5. Theorists and the evolution of theories 926.6. Polysemy of cultural fact and scientific rigor 946.7. The return of diachrony 956.8. Conclusion 956.9. References 96Part 3. Literature and Arts Sciences 101Chapter 7. Challenges of Non-logocentric Semiotics of Cultures: Explorations Based on Music and the Notion of Significativity 103Lia KURTS-WÖSTE7.1. Interpretative action, hermeneutic science and the general hermeneutization of the sciences 1047.2. 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 1117.3. Significativity 1177.4. Music and the hermeneutics of significativity 1197.5. Modal hermeneutics and engagement strategy 1247.6. Science of the arts and the esthetic intention of the semiotics of cultures 1277.7. References 129Chapter 8. The Roles of a Semiotics of the Arts: Working Hypotheses for Overcoming the Shortcomings of the Past 131Pierluigi BASSO-FOSSALI8.1. Some remedies for previous theoretical abuses 1318.1.1. Partial approaches, all powerful 1318.1.2. A hermeneutic paradigm for a semiotic ecology 1338.1.3. Skepticism and responsive aptitude 1358.2. Some remedies for the universalization brought about by postmodernism 1378.2.1. A non-ethnocentric aesthetics 1378.2.2. The (un)manageable nature of primitive art 1398.2.3. In search of a meaningful place 1428.3. Some remedies to institutionalized nominalism of art 1458.3.1. Art as a displayed vulnerability of institutions: maestria in minor mode 1468.3.2. Art as a fracture of proximity 1478.3.3. Allopathic regime and the vulnerability of art 1488.4. Some methodological remedies 1508.4.1. The work and its spaces of relevance 1508.4.2. Cultural identity between analysis and interpretation 1528.4.3. Methodology and knowing anew 1538.5. References 155Conclusion 159Bernard REBERList of Authors 179Index 181
Astrid GUILLAUME, Associate Professor Sorbonne Université.Lia KURTS-WÖSTE, Assistant Professor Université Bordeaux-Montaigne.