Ecstatic naturalism
Subtitle: signs of the world
By: Robert S. Corrington.
Series: Advances in semiotics
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Semiotics.; Philosophy of nature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.