TY - BOOK ID - 77894189 TI - Ecstatic naturalism PY - 1994 SN - 0585001170 9780585001173 0253314410 9780253314413 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Semiotics. KW - Philosophy of nature. KW - Semiotics KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Nature KW - Nature, Philosophy of KW - Natural theology KW - Semeiotics KW - Semiology (Linguistics) KW - Semantics KW - Signs and symbols KW - Structuralism (Literary analysis) KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894189 AB - 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. ER -