Walker Percy, Philosopher
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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 To Take the Writer's Meaning: An Unpublished Manuscript on Peirce and Modern Semiotic by Walker Percy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. .
