Hyperthematics : The Logic of Value

Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Mode of Expansive Exploration
	Chapter 1 Beginnings and the Hyperthematic Structures of Game and Narrative
		Working Definition of Hyperthematics
		Methodological Considerations of Hyperthematics
		General Considerations of Hyperthematics
		Definitions
		The Hypertheme H and the Derivatives
		Hyperthematic Expansion Compared to the Scientific Method
		The Hyperthematic Structure of the Game
		The Hyperthematic Structure of Narrative
	Chapter 2 Hyperthematic Structures of Dance and Music
		The Hyperthematic Structure of Dance
		The Military as an Eliminatory Community, Drill, and Leadership
		The Hyperthematic Structure of Music
	Chapter 3 Hyperthematic Expansion of Light and Color
		Color as a Creation of Interpretive Action
		Interpretive Action and Value at Lower Physical Complexity
		Light as Vehicle for Maximal Interpretation at Physical Ranges of Complexity
		Devaluations at Physical Ranges of Complexity from Light to Spatiality
		Light as the Leading Edge of our Interpretive Capacity
		The Relative Value of the Colors
		The Creative Evolution of Interpretive Capacity and Future Color
	Chapter 4 The Hyperthematic Structure of Visual Arts
		Introduction
		The Development of the Visual Arts in Painting
			Paleolithic and Ancient Egyptian Art
			Minoan and Ancient Greek Art
			Han Chinese Art
			Medieval Christian Art
			The Art of Caravaggio
			David, Delacroix, and Courbet
			The French Impressionists
Part II: Mode of Expansive Reconstruction
	Chapter 5 Hyperthematization of the Corporation
		Introduction
		The Problematic of the Corporation
		Some Examples of the Historical Development of the Corporation
		The Purpose of Commercial Corporations
		The Corporation as a Hyperthematic Structure
		The Symmetric Anti-Hyperthemes
		Anti-Hyperthemes in Children’s Play
		The Outcomes of the Product Object Assumption
		Marx and the Common Product Object
	Chapter 6 Expansive Reconstruction of H5 to H15
		Introduction
		H5 Reconstruction
		H6 Reconstruction
		H7 Reconstruction
		H8 and H9 Reconstruction
		H10 Reconstruction
		H11 Reconstruction
		H12 Reconstruction
		H13 Reconstruction
		H14 and H15 Reconstruction
	Chapter 7 Expansive Reconstruction of the Hyperthemes of Light and Color
		HCl Reconstruction
		HCr Reconstruction
		Creativity and the Worker
		Creativity and the Buyer
		Creativity and the Owners and Managers
		HCu Reconstruction
		HAs Reconstruction
		Asymmetry and Food Production
		Asymmetry and Medicine
		Asymmetry in Architecture
		Asymmetry and Corporate Organization
	Chapter 8 Expansive Reconstruction of the Hyperthemes of the Visual Arts
		Hv Reconstruction
		Hd Reconstruction
		HOe Reconstruction
		Ha Reconstruction
		Hc Reconstruction
Conclusion
	Feeling Ranges—Unvarying Sameness Interpreted through Increasing Complexity
	Knowing Ranges—Ranges of Complexity Interpreted through Increasing Creativity
	The Feelings of Constriction
	The Path for Ethics and Science
	Rejoining the Empirical and Ideal
	The Nature of Science and the Culture Wars
	Coda
Summary of the Hyperthemes
Appendix A  Aesthetic Taste for Hyperthematics and Hume’s Notion of Taste
Appendix B Devaluation and Symmetric Consequence
Appendix C The Expansion of Currency
Appendix D The Relation of Royce’s System Sigma to Hyperthematics and the Origins of Dyadic Logic
	System Σ
Diagrams
Notes
References
Index of Proper Names
Index of Subjects