Nature’s Transcendental Creativity: Deleuze, Corrington, and an Aesthetic Phenomenology

Abstract

Ecstatic naturalism believes that a rich conceptualization of nature should emphasize the reality of a basic ontological difference between a ground that is responsible for generating the world and the encompassing yet incarnate processes of the world. The ontological difference mentioned here is a difference between "nature naturing" (natura naturans) and "nature natured" (natura naturata). Ecstatic naturalism takes seriously the difference between nature naturing and nature natured because it is a philosophy that recognizes nature's immanent or incarnate processes of semiotic generation as well as the reality of nature's transcendental generative ground (a ground that "natures" via sign processes). Here, Niemoczynski discusses nature's transcendental creativity.