A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy

Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 The paradox of ‘‘nature’’ and psychosemiosis......Page 14
Nature, architectonic, and horizons......Page 23
Four naturalisms......Page 35
Motives, validation, and metaphysics......Page 44
The transformation of psychoanalysis......Page 55
2 The sign vehicle and its pathways......Page 102
The ontology of signs: roots and blooms......Page 104
Four infinities......Page 113
Local and regional traits......Page 127
Internal semiotic contradiction and hermetic drift......Page 132
Natural and interpretive communities......Page 140
The pretemporal, temporal, and posttemporal......Page 154
Aesthetic and religious signs......Page 159
Petroglyphs......Page 166
Spirit......Page 176
3 World semiosis and the evolution of meaning......Page 182
The sign/object correlation......Page 183
Archetypal and generic meanings......Page 195
Semiotic competition......Page 203
Nascent meanings and engrams......Page 208
Consummated signs......Page 217
Entropy and self-organization......Page 221
Spirits......Page 225
Four species of sacred folds and intervals......Page 238
Die Potenzen......Page 258
References......Page 264
H......Page 279
P......Page 280
W......Page 281