Ecstatic naturalism : signs of the world /

Corrington's study of naturalistic semiotic theory advances historically from the year 1632 with the publication of the Tractatus de Signis: The Semiotic of John Poinsot through the metaphysics of, for example, the classical American sources (Royce, Pierce, Dewey, Tillich), to the post-Lacanian semiotic explorations of Kristeva. Moving beyond any closed totality of signification, Corrington projects beyond language with semiosis living out of "natural grace and ... [deriving] its secure momentum from the spirit. The spirit lives between nature nurturing (the realm of the potencies) and nature natured (the world's orders) and preserves power and meaning under the conditions of finitude and death." This natural and metaphysical study goes beyond the semiosis of an individual text and celebrates the large creative tension of differences of the innumerabilities of "infinite semiosis" that necessitate "the still presence of divine love that makes all other dimensions of meaning possible." Postgraduate practitioners of metaphysical and semiotic inquiry will find this study valuable as a historical journey and a harbinger of further inquiry. Professional audiences. W. B. Warde Jr.; University of North Texas