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Glossary of Morphology

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Starting from Goethe. Currently, there exists no discipline whose specific boundaries could be defined as morphology. Nevertheless, it is possible to trace out its history in ample terms and to define its scope broadly by understanding it as the place where the semantics of forms are defined and where they are connected to a reference image. The central link in the field of morphology is form-image, and it refers to those dynamics of the form and to the dynamic systems that have taken hold in late modernity and that continue to grow today.

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Tedesco, S., Vercellone, F. (2020). Introduction . In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_1

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