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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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783319779683
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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 To Take the Writer's Meaning: An Unpublished Manuscript on Peirce and Modern Semiotic by Walker Percy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. .