Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer

by Brian A. Smith

Walker Percy is one of America's great novelists, and he ought to be known as a political thinker as well. In Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer, Brian A. Smith makes the case that we should understand Percy's novels and essays together as a guide to living in a complex world. Percy cultivated a philosophical and literary approach that revealed the fault lines in the modern mind. He portrayed man as a wayfarer: peristantly unsatisfied and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498537545
• ISBN13: 9781498537544
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"