Nature and Nothingness

Robert S. Corrington is Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Philosophical Theology at Drew University.

• Chapter One: Religion, Violence, and NatureChapter Two: Horror and Totalizing NothingnessChapter Three: Nature’s PsycheChapter Four: Art, Barbarism, and CivilizationChapter Five: Naturing NothingnessChapter Six: Encompassing Nothingness

This book is an important continuation of Robert S. Corrington’s Ecstatic Naturalism and further expands his thesis on the dangers of tribalism and dogmatic religion within the context of the nothingness that individuals and communities encounter in nature. Corrington’s signature aptitude for drawing on a broad range of philosophical, theological, and psychoanalytic thinkers to inform his ideas is especially pronounced in this book, which is one in a series of works on Ecstatic Naturalism that focuses on the inherent challenges and potencies of the Selving process. Nature and Nothingness is a must-read for anyone who is interested in gaining a keener insight into the semiotic richness of the realm of nature that is often underestimated or simply ignored.