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Collecting sixteen key texts on a broad range of key philosophical topics, enables readers to perceive the scope of Corrington's philosophy.
Robert S. Corrington has produced twelve original texts, over eighty journal articles, and at least thirty book reviews over a long and distinguished teaching career at Penn State University and Drew University. He has also served as editor of at least three essay collections, written two plays, and had numerous interviews. Though his work has been included in several essay collections on philosophical and religious naturalism, presently there is no critical reader based on selections from his work. This volume begins with an editor's introduction by Stephanie Theodorou. The volume's chapters are structured within four major sections, each covering a united set of themes that represent the foundations of Corrington’s metaphysics. The chapters are all reprinted articles and book chapters from Corrington's publications.
"Robert Corrington is one of the most creative and important philosophical theologians of his generation. Well-known for the development of a philosophical and theological perspective that he identifies as 'ecstatic naturalism,' his influence has been and continues to be significant. Nevertheless, that influence could be even greater if his writings were more accessible. This volume fills an important void, providing an accessible introduction for readers to the full range of Corrington’s thought." — Michael L. Raposa, Lehigh University
Robert S. Corrington is Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Philosophical Theology, Emeritus, at Drew University. He is coeditor, with Kathleen A. Wallace and Armen Marsoobian, of Metaphysics of Natural Complexes, second, expanded edition, also by SUNY Press. Stephanie Theodorou is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and World Religions at the Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece.
Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction to The Critical Corrington
Stephanie Theodorou
Part One. Semiotics and Hermeneutics
1. Worldhood
2. The Universe of Signs
3. Infinite Semiosis
Part Two. Philosophical Theology
4. Toward a Transformation of Neo-Classical Theism
5. Beyond Experience: Pragmatism and Nature's God
6. Sacred Folds
7. Neville's Naturalism and the Location of God
8. My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism.
Part Three. Metaphysics and Cosmology
9. The Evolving God and the Heart of Nature
10. Horror and Totalizing Nothingness
11. The Categorial Schema
12. Archetypes, Evolution, Betweenness
Part Four. The Human Process, Selving, and Culture
13. Ordinal Psychoanalysis and the Selving Process
14. The How of Nature and the Where of the Sacred
15. World Semiosis and the Evolution of Meaning
16. Art, Barbarism, and Civilization
Notes
Bibliography
Index