Walker Percy, Philosopher

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Marsh, Leslie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; America-Literatures.; Catholic Church.; Philosophy of Man.; North American Literature.; Catholicism.

Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher. This collection offers a sustained examination of key aspects to his more technical philosophy (primarily semiotics and the philosophy of language) as well as some of his lesser known philosophical interests, i...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword: Percy: The Wondering Physician-Philosopher
• 1. Introduction: Philosopher of Precision and Soul
• 2. Percy, Peirce and Parsifal: Intuition's Farther Shore
• 3. Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language
• 4. That Mystery Category "Fourthness" and Its Relationship to the Work of C. S. Peirce
• 5. Diamonds in the Rough: The Peirce-Percy Semiotic in The Second Coming
• 6. Walker Percy's Intersubjectivity: An Existential Semiotic or 3 + 3 = 4
• 7. To Take the Writer's Meaning: An Unpublished Manuscript on Peirce and Modern Semiotic by Walker Percy
• 8. An Attempt Toward A Natural/UnNatural History of The Lay-Scientific Interface or How Walker Percy Got on the Way to Becoming a Radical (Anthropologist)
• 9. Percy's Poetics of Dwelling: The Dialogical Self and the Ethics of Reentry in The Last Gentleman and Lost in the Cosmos
• 10. "There Must Be a Place": Walker Percy and the Philosophy of Place
• 11. On Being Jaded: Walker Percy's Philosophical Contributions
• 12. Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction. .