Following Forms, Following Functions

Practices and Disciplines in Dialogue

Edited By: Federica Pau, Luca Vargiu

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The contributions here are devoted to the analysis of the relationship between form and function, two concepts that have played, and continue to play, an important role in several disciplines, from philosophical reflection to theoretical biology.

This volume of collected essays is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between form and function, two concepts that have played, and continue to…

This volume of collected essays is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between form and function, two concepts that have played, and continue to play, an important role in several disciplines, from philosophical reflection to theoretical biology, and from the discourses related to art, image and design to cultural anthropology.

As such, this book explores the influence of these two notions in such a broad disciplinary field, in order to draw out an original global overview on the subject. For this purpose, it presents contributions by aestheticians, art historians, archaeologists, ethnoanthropologists, and morphologists, covering a wide chronological span, from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages, and from Modernism to more recent events that still need to be historicized.

Federica Pau is currently a member of the Équipe de recherche Métaphysique, histoire, concepts, actualité at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France, and teaching assistant at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Her research interests cover urban aesthetics, the philosophy of landscape, the aesthetics of architecture, phenomenology, and theories of the Medieval image, having authored one book and several papers on these subjects. She is a member of the Società Italiana d’Estetica.

Luca Vargiu teaches Aesthetics at the University of Cagliari, Italy. His research interests include Medieval and contemporary image theories, the theories of art history, the relationship between aesthetics and hermeneutics, and the philosophy of landscape, having authored two books and several papers on these subjects. He is member of the Società Italiana d’Estetica and the Istituto “Emilio Betti” di Scienza e Teoria del Diritto nella storia e nella società. In 2009, he won the Premio Nuova Estetica (New Aesthetics Prize).

Simona Campus, Filippo Focosi, Massimo Lumini, Elisabetta Pala, Susanna Paulis, Salvatore Tedesco, Luca Vargiv, Alberto Virdis