Making Sense, Making Science

This book demonstrates the federative power of the methodology of the sciences of culture by exploiting its critical, historical, and comparative principles to address both cultural objects and disciplines that report on them. Scientific activity is rethought in its dimension of interpretative act responsible for both the human and the non-human. This book fills a gap by reconnecting in an innovative and original way the scientific, artistic and ethico-political spheres. Front Matter -- Semiotic Foundations of the Cultural Sciences. Cassirer and Symbolic Forms / Jean Lassgue -- Leroi-Gourhan and the Birth of the Symbolic Function / Arild Utaker -- Simondon, Language and Technology / Vincent Bentems -- Hermeneutics of Science, Hermeneutical Sciences. On the Philosophy of Mathematics: Reflections on "Making Science", Based on Cavaills / Franck Neveu -- The Semiotic Articulation of Textual Meaning: Significance, Signification, Designation and Expression / Regis Missire -- Semiotics of Cultures and Theoretical Hybridities: For a Renewal of Thought / Astrid Guillaume -- Literature and Arts Sciences. Challenges of Non-logocentric Semiotics of Cultures: Explorations Based on Music and the Notion of Significativity / Lia Kurts-Woste -- The Roles of a Semiotics of the Arts: Working Hypotheses for Overcoming the Shortcomings of the Past / Pierluigi Basso-Fossali -- Conclusion: Making Sense Between Science and Ethics