Nature's Transcendence and Immanence

Marilynn Lawrence teaches philosophy at Immaculata University.Jea Sophia Oh is assistant professor of philosophy at West Chester University.

Robert S. Corrington’s “Ecstatic Naturalism” is an important philosophical manifesto for our time. It combines American and Continental philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, art, and other motifs into a rich blend of philosophical and religious wisdom—all focused on the mysterious processes of nature as these relate to human life. The authors of this edited collection focus on Ecstatic Naturalism from a variety of insightful directions, both appreciative and critical, and help in this way to bring its fascinating facets and challenging possibilities into view.

• Foreword by Robert S. Corrington An Introduction—Marilynn Lawrence with Jea Sophia OhI. Between Immanence and Transcendence of Nature1. Chaosmic Naturalisms: Cosmological Immanence, Multiplicity and Divinity in Corrington and Faber—Austin Roberts2. Trinitarian Nature? Tehom, Word and Spirit: A Constructive and Contemplative Journey Through Pannikar, Tillich, and Corrington—Rory McEntee 3. Wild Air: Toward a Poetics of Ecstatic Naturalism—Rose Ellen DunnII. Nature’s Semiosis and Unconscious4. Driven from the Bottomless Lake of Consciousness: Neuropsychoanalysis, Peirce, and an Ecstatic Naturalism—Wade A. Mitchell5. Groundwork for a Transcendentalist Semeiotics of Nature—Nicholas L. Guardiano6. The Meaning of Nature: Toward a Philosophical Ecology—Leon Niemoczynski7. Landscapes of the Unconscious and the Longings of Nature—Elaine Padilla III. Nature’s Plurality and Hybridity 8. Mystical Pluralism: James, Blood, and the Experience of Ecstatic Nature—Thomas Millary 9. Vulnerable Transcendence of Nature: A Naturalistic Reading of Hybridity, Beginning, and Colliding in Chinese Creation Mythology—Jea Sophia Oh 10. A Post-Naturalist Idea of Ec-stacy: An East-West Dialogue in a Post-Human Age—Iljoon Park11. Daseok’s God in Dialogue with Deep Pantheism and Process Panentheism—Hiheon KimBibliography About the Contributors