Nature's Primal Self

NatureΓÇÖs Primal Self examines CorringtonΓÇÖs thought, called ΓÇ£ecstatic naturalism,ΓÇ¥ in juxtaposition to both C. S. PeirceΓÇÖs pragmatic and semiotic concept of the self and Karl JaspersΓÇÖ existential elucidation of Existenz. PeirceΓÇÖs and JaspersΓÇÖ anthropocentrism is thus corrected by CorringtonΓÇÖs ecstatic naturalism. Ecstatic naturalism, as a new movement, is both a semiotic theoretical method and a metaphysics that probes deeply into the ontological divide between nature naturing and nature natured. Author Nam T. Nguyen attempts to achieve three goals: first, to present and elucidate the underlying philosophical concepts of Charles Peirce, Karl Jaspers, and Robert Corrington; second, to critique the anthropocentric self of PeirceΓÇÖs semiotic pragmatism and of JaspersΓÇÖ existential anthropology (periechontology) from the standpoint of ecstatic naturalism; and third, to introduce the concept of natureΓÇÖs primal self, radically grounded in the perspective of ecstatic naturalism, as a judicious, more encompassing, and richer framework compared to PeirceΓÇÖs semiotic construction of the self and JaspersΓÇÖ existential concept of Existenz.