Charles Sanders Peirce and a Religious Metaphysics of Nature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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In this enlightening and original study on the cultivation of a religious understanding of nature, Leon Niemoczynski applies Charles Sanders Peirce's thought on metaphysics to 'ecstatic naturalism,' the philosophical perspective developed by Robert Corrington. Niemoczynski points to Peirce's phenomenological and metaphysical understanding of possibility-the concept of 'Firstness'-as especially critical to understanding how the divine might be meaningfully encountered in religious experience. He goes on to define his own concept of speculative naturalism, offering a new approach to thinking about nature that joins the essence of pragmatism with the heretical boldness of speculative thought.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-03-17
Mått:165 x 239 x 18 mm
Vikt:445 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:182
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739141281

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Leon J. Niemoczynski is a lecturer in philosophy at Immaculata University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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In this brilliant book, Leon Niemoczynski tackles the elusive concept of ground/abyss by a careful analysis of Schelling, Peirce, and Heidegger. The scholarship on all three thinkers is first-rate and shows, in particular, the influence of Schelling on pragmaticism and the Being/Beyng problematic. Using ecstatic naturalism as a hermeneutic template, Niemoczynski grapples with the nature of identity and difference between nature naturing and nature natured. Out of these conceptualizations he has a new way of talking about abduction, god, potencies, and the sacred. The outstanding feature of this book is how he weaves together Schelling's unruly ground, Peirce's Firstness (by far the most profound of Peirce's three categories), and Heidegger's 'middle' period descriptions of the gifting of the holy as enabled by Beyng's hidden and unhidden aspects. Finally, Niemoczynski establishes his own philosophy of pragmatic speculative realism that augments and challenges the framework of ecstatic naturalism.