Swiss Society for Symbol Research
The Swiss Society for Symbol Research is a Swiss association for the interdisciplinary development of symbol fields and services related to the use of symbols.
The society was founded in 1983 by Adam Zweig and has been an associated member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences since 1994 . She publishes the book series Writings on Symbol Research . Every year it organizes a colloquium on a special topic of symbol research.
The current president of the society is the literary scholar Paul Michel .
Publications
- Fonts for symbol research.
Volumes 1 to 13 are published by Peter Lang Verlag , Frankfurt, New York, Oxford. ISSN 0175-6990
- Symbol research
- About the creation of symbols
- Cosmos - art - symbol
- Adam Zweig: Symbol research and natural science
- Symbol research with political, religious and aesthetic forms of expression
- On the symbolism of the heart and space
- Animal symbolism
- Symbolism of way and journey
- The biological and cultural roots of symbol use
- Symbolism of the body
- Symbolism of place and space
- Symbols in the service of representing identity
- Symbolically crooked - mishaps in the genesis and use of symbols
- Presence without substance - Contributions to the symbolism of the mirror (Pano-Verlag Zurich)
- Immediate (i) lability. Design and readability of emotions (Pano-Verlag Zurich)
- Spider foot and toad belly. Genesis and symbolism of composite beings (published 2013, Pano-Verlag Zurich)