"[Corrington] undertakes a formidable task in his latest book: a metaphysical semiotics of the world... Ecstatic Naturalism ultimately offers breadth, mysticism and unshakeable faith. It sees optimistically and asks that others do similarly- a rare invitation in a postmodern world." - Environmental Politics " ... an original philosophical position ... historically thorough, carefully argued, and well disciplined."- Robert C. Neville

• FOREWORD: NATURA NATURANS AND NATURA NATURATA John Deely Preface Introduction: Semiotics and Metaphysics 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 NatureOs Unconscious Sixth Dimension of Signification: The Postsemiotic and the Return of the Positive 3. Betweeness 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 Between the Potencies and the Archetypes: Evoking Developmental Teleology and the Incarnation of Spirit 4. Meaning and Mystery Natural Embodiment Natural Communication Courage and the Gestalt of Grace Beyond Anthropocentrism: Umwelten The Horizons of the Human Process Mystery, the Archetypes, and the Return of the Material Maternal References Index