The Form as a Morphology of Process: The Relevance of René Thom for Understanding Individuation

Thinking about notions such as figure, form, morphology of process, evolving process… leads us to encountering one of the major yet atypical French thinkers of the 20th century, for whom the figure and the form were key words behind any serious explanation concerning the most varied fields of human knowledge. The idea of bringing together science and philosophy—when it comes to examining the explanatory value associated with the handling of certain “archetypical” figures—is one of the singular characteristics of René Thom’s work.