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Drawing the Urpflanze: Goethe, Arber, Grothendieck

hal.structure.identifierBiodiversité, Gènes & Communautés [BioGeCo]
dc.contributor.authorGERBER, Sophie
dc.contributor.editorSands Danielle
dc.contributor.editorWhistler Daniel
dc.date2025
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-23T02:01:39Z
dc.date.available2025-09-23T02:01:39Z
dc.date.created2025-01-06
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.urihttps://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/207659
dc.description.abstractEn<div><p>Discovering the high diversity of plants in Italian gardens, Goethe coined the term Urpflanze (1817, primordial, archetypal plant). Agnes Arber (1950) describes this notion as "an intellectual basis for vegetable morphology", "under which all plant forms might be brought together". This Urpflanze was drawn by two botanists, Turpin in 1837 and Schleiden in 1843. Arber qualifies the first picture as a botanist's nightmare, and both drawings of being absurd, because of their wish to make an archetype visible. Goethe's concept is indeed both a real experience and an ideal mental construct, and might therefore not be representable as such. The Goethean concept is discussed through plant individuality, the history of botany, representation and sensory approaches of plant. Parallels are made between Goethe's Urpflanze concept and topology, a branch of mathematics, and in particular with two concepts developed by the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck: motives and topos. Both Goethe and Grothendieck were concerned about uniting multiplicity and emphasizing the connexion of knowledge and experience. Both the poet and scientist and the mathematician and political ecologist, in different times, advocate for paying a close attention to the diversity of life, and to its defence.</p></div>
dc.language.isoen
dc.source.titlePhilosophical Life of Plants
dc.title.enDrawing the Urpflanze: Goethe, Arber, Grothendieck
dc.typeChapitre d'ouvrage
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences
dc.subject.halSciences du Vivant [q-bio]
dc.subject.halSciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Biologie végétale/Botanique
bordeaux.hal.laboratoriesBioGeCo (Biodiversité Gènes & Communautés) - UMR 1202*
bordeaux.institutionUniversité de Bordeaux
bordeaux.institutionINRAE
bordeaux.title.proceedingPhilosophical Life of Plants
hal.identifierhal-05272723
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-05272723v1
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