Ecstatic naturalism : signs of the world / Robert S. Corrington. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrington, Robert S., 1950-

Series:

Advances in semiotics

Advances in semiotics Ecstatic naturalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 218 p. )

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs.

Contents:

Foreword: Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata / John Deely

1. Ecstatic Naturalism. The Four Naturalisms. The Chora, Death, and Transfiguration. Beyond Language. Positioning, Repositioning, and Depositioning. The Unconscious of Nature. Spirit, Negativity, and Semiosis. The Consummation of Naturalism

2. Infinite Semiosis. The Prospective and the Not Yet. First Dimension of Signification: Local and Regional Traits. Second Dimension of Signification: Serial Intersection. Third Dimension of Signification: Temporality, Introspection, and Intersubjectivity. Fourth Dimension of Signification: World Semiosis and the Spirit. Fifth Dimension of Signification: Signs, Traces, and Nature's Unconscious. Sixth Dimension of Signification: The Postsemiotic and the Return of the Positive

3. Betweenness. The Self-Giving Ground. Between Nature Naturing and Nature Natured: Emptying. Between the Chora and World Semiosis: Denial. Between the Open Infinite and the Processive Infinite: Enabling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-00117-0