Prefazione al volome di A.F. de Donato, "Eterogenesi del concetto. Variazioni si matematica e stile a partire da Gilles Deleuze"

The text by De Donato presents a philosophical project that moves beyond substance-based metaphysics toward a processual ontology of morphogenesis, where reality is understood as the continuous generation of forms through differentiation. Drawing on Plato, Schelling, and especially Deleuze, Andrea De Donato develops the concept of heterogenesis as a dynamic epistemological framework that replaces the question “what is?” with “how does it form?”. Mathematics is reinterpreted not as a formal tool but as a way of thinking relational becoming. Integrating contemporary mathematics and cognitive science, the project aims to establish a mathesis singularis: a system capable of thinking singularity and flux without reducing them, thus proposing a relational, non-substantial metaphysics grounded in ongoing ontogenesis.