Corrington Robert S. A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy

Cambridge University Press, 2000. — xi, 268. — ISBN: 0-511-00970-4."A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy" deals with the concept of nature from an unusually broad perspective, viewing nature as encompassing every order of the world. It is innovative in method, weaving together different disciplines, methods and attunements, but at the same time rich and imaginative in its poetical style and metaphors. It opens up a new understanding of the depths and vastness of nature, worlds strange, scary but also fascinating. It reflects on the mystery of the sacred in nature and the meaning humans can make of their lives.
In this book Robert Corrington has managed to hold together the vital threads of his earlier books and add new insights as well to his thought of ecstatic naturalism.The paradox of ‘‘nature’’ and psychosemiosis
Nature, architectonic, and horizons
Four naturalisms
Motives, validation, and metaphysics
The transformation of psychoanalysis
The sign vehicle and its pathways
The ontology of signs: roots and blooms
Four infinities
Local and regional traits
Internal semiotic contradiction and hermetic drift
Natural and interpretive communities
The pretemporal, temporal, and posttemporal
Aesthetic and religious signs
Petroglyphs
Spirit
World semiosis and the evolution of meaning
The sign/object correlation
Archetypal and generic meanings
Semiotic competition
Nascent meanings and engrams
Consummated signs
Entropy and self-organization
Spirits
Four species of sacred folds and intervals
Die Potenzen