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Figuration/Figure/Form
No full textIt is still Weizsäcker to show that rather than a clear contrast (usually already referring to the names of Plato and Aristotle and to the competition between the concepts of eidos and morphé) it is a necessary correlation and a way through which the fundamental problem of unity of knowledge is placed
Introduction
No full textThe original formulation of the morphological project, expressed in all the prob- lematic richness of its implications in this private annotation by Goethe, does not cease to question scientific research and is still reproposed today in all its urgency to the philosophical reflection
Incarnation
No full textThe term “INCARNATION” (Verkörperung) is introduced in the morphological lexicon by Edgar Wind in his study on Das Experiment und die Metaphysik (1934), on the basis of Warburg’s reflection on the FORM and history of the IMAGE
Homology
No full text“Homology is probably the most important concept in comparative biology. It has been treated in different ways, however, and more than one concept of homology is probably defensible” (Minelli 1994: 18); “Homology is one of the terms most widely employed in biology. Together with species, gene and a few others, it is likely to occur in texts devoted to the most diverse biological disciplines, from MORPHOLOGY to systematics to molecular genetics
Character/State
No full textThe conceptual couple CHARACTER/STATE is an ideal candidate to demonstrate the virtues of a morphological way of proceeding that allows historically distinct disciplinary horizons to dialogue in order to achieve a new disciplinary synthesis (Love 2003) and first of all in order to reach a new morphological lexicon, aware of the traditions of reference and of the mutual advantage arising from the dialogue itself
Degeneration
No full textComplex and in many ways enlightening, the history of this concept presents the succession of an eighteenth-century phase in which the descriptive and structural meaning prevails, and of an nineteenth-twentieth-century phase in which, vice versa, the concept is charged with highly negative evaluative meanings, to the point of becoming salient in Nazi ideology as the indicator of an anti-model to be annihilated in the name of a totalitarian program connoted at the same time and alternatively in a biological-racial and artistic-stylistic sense
Type/Typology
No full textThe concept of TYPE and the reference to a modality of thought characterized by a typological STYLE undoubtedly constitute characteristic elements of the morphological discourse, whether considered in its Goethean meaning, analysed starting from the many philosophical, naturalistic, poetological sources that come together in Goethe’s thought, or still because of the modern and contemporary developments that arose from the Goethean perspective in philosophy and in the natural sciences
Emergence
No full textThe concept of EMERGENCE today knows a fortune that goes beyond the scope of epistemology and the philosophy of science making it one of the leading concepts in the field of theories of COMPLEXITY and innovation and thus risking, at the same time, to disperse its undoubted conceptual power in some descriptive indeterminacy
Niche
No full textNo concept in ecology has been more variously defined or more universally confused than ‘niche’
Umwelt
No full textThe term UMWELT spreads in the German language from the beginning of the nineteenth century, to indicate—both in a general relational and sociological sense, and in more specific reference to the peculiarities of PERCEPTION considered as an essential biological characteristic—the external world that surrounds and accompanies living organisms
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