Nam T. Nguyen teaches philosophy at the University of Central Florida.

This book brings together three profound thinkers, Peirce, Jaspers, and Corrington, with clarity, precision, and insight. Nguyen’s grasp of the problem of the self through semiotic, existential, and ecstatic naturalistic frames is illuminating and brilliant. The self remains a philosophical portal into questions of transcendence and naturalism throughout this work, an opening the author explores with care and precision. By counterpoising his theism to Corrington’s ecstatic naturalism, Nguyen uniquely deepens semiotic anthropology for philosophical theology and for Peirce scholarship.

• Foreword by Robert CorringtonAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: The Anthropocentric Self in Peirce’s Semiotic PragmaticismChapter Two: The Anthropocentric Self in Jaspers’ PeriechontologyChapter Three: Nature’s Primal Self in Ecstatic NaturalismChapter Four: Nature’s Primal Self: An Ecstatic Naturalist’s Critique of Peirce’s SemioticConstruction of the Self and Jaspers’ Elucidation of Existenz.Appendix: Divine Transcendence or “Deep Pantheism”?

Nam T. Nguyen teaches philosophy at the University of Central Florida.

This book brings together three profound thinkers, Peirce, Jaspers, and Corrington, with clarity, precision, and insight. Nguyen’s grasp of the problem of the self through semiotic, existential, and ecstatic naturalistic frames is illuminating and brilliant. The self remains a philosophical portal into questions of transcendence and naturalism throughout this work, an opening the author explores with care and precision. By counterpoising his theism to Corrington’s ecstatic naturalism, Nguyen uniquely deepens semiotic anthropology for philosophical theology and for Peirce scholarship.

• Foreword by Robert CorringtonAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: The Anthropocentric Self in Peirce’s Semiotic PragmaticismChapter Two: The Anthropocentric Self in Jaspers’ PeriechontologyChapter Three: Nature’s Primal Self in Ecstatic NaturalismChapter Four: Nature’s Primal Self: An Ecstatic Naturalist’s Critique of Peirce’s SemioticConstruction of the Self and Jaspers’ Elucidation of Existenz.Appendix: Divine Transcendence or “Deep Pantheism”?

Nam T. Nguyen teaches philosophy at the University of Central Florida.

This book brings together three profound thinkers, Peirce, Jaspers, and Corrington, with clarity, precision, and insight. Nguyen’s grasp of the problem of the self through semiotic, existential, and ecstatic naturalistic frames is illuminating and brilliant. The self remains a philosophical portal into questions of transcendence and naturalism throughout this work, an opening the author explores with care and precision. By counterpoising his theism to Corrington’s ecstatic naturalism, Nguyen uniquely deepens semiotic anthropology for philosophical theology and for Peirce scholarship.

• Foreword by Robert CorringtonAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: The Anthropocentric Self in Peirce’s Semiotic PragmaticismChapter Two: The Anthropocentric Self in Jaspers’ PeriechontologyChapter Three: Nature’s Primal Self in Ecstatic NaturalismChapter Four: Nature’s Primal Self: An Ecstatic Naturalist’s Critique of Peirce’s SemioticConstruction of the Self and Jaspers’ Elucidation of Existenz.Appendix: Divine Transcendence or “Deep Pantheism”?