Semiosis and Catastrophes: Ren?Thom's Semiotic Heritage (Paperback)

Contents: Wolfgang Wildgen: Introduction ? Marc Chaperon: Catastrophes. A testimony ? Svend Østergaard: Rene Thom: The Recognition of Forms. An Apologia for Realism ? Peer F. Bundgaard/Frederik Stjernfelt: Rene Thom’s Semiotics and Its Sources ? Wolfgang Wildgen: Thom’s Theory of ≪ Saillance ≫ and ≪ Pregnance ≫ and Modern Evolutionary Linguistics ? Isabel Marcos: Urban Universals ? Angel Lopez-Garcia: Catastrophes: What are we talking about? ? Jean Petitot : ≪ Le hiatus entre le logique et le morphologique ≫. Predication et Perception ? Per Aage Brandt : Rene Thom - Pregnances et catastrophes. Pour une phenomenologie semio-cognitive.