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Walker Percy, Philosopher Leslie Marsh

Walker Percy, Philosopher By Leslie Marsh

Walker Percy, Philosopher by Leslie Marsh


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Summary

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, including the philosophy of place and dislocation.

Walker Percy, Philosopher Summary

Walker Percy, Philosopher by Leslie Marsh

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, including the philosophy of place and dislocation. Contributors expound upon Percys multifaceted philosophy, an invitation to literature and theology scholars as well as to philosophers who may not be familiar with the philosophical underpinnings of his work.

About Leslie Marsh

Leslie Marsh is with the International Academy of Pathology based at The University of British Columbia Medical School, Canada. He is the co-founder of the philosophy journal EPISTEME, Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism and is the editor of books on Adam Smith, Herbert Simon, Friedrich Hayek, and Michael Oakeshott.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Percy: The Wondering Physician-Philosopher.-1. Introduction: Philosopher of Precision and Soul.-2. Percy, Peirce and Parsifal: Intuitions 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 Percys 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 To Take the Writer's Meaning: An Unpublished Manuscript on Peirce and Modern Semiotic by Walker Percy.-8.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. Percys 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 Philosophyof Place.-11. On Being Jaded: Walker Percys Philosophical Contributions.-12. Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction.


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GOR013850859
9783319779676
3319779672
Walker Percy, Philosopher by Leslie Marsh
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-08-13
280
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