Introduction

1-4

Life

5-13

Scientist because philosopher, philosopher because scientist

15-22

The line and the circle

23-34

The biological model

for an anti-cartesian semiotics

35-48

From complementarity to semiosis

49-68

The origin of language

Alexander Marshack

69-80

Attention and consciousness

81-88

Breaking the circle

89-97

Language and ethics

99-108

Aesthetic experience and the problem of the sacred

109-121

Conclusion

Prodi and Italian thought

Amy E. Varela

123-133