Walker Percy, Philosopher

By Leslie Marsh

Book Overview

Foreword- Richard GundermanThe significance of Walker Percy from the perspective of a practising medical clinician and philosopher-ethicist.
1. Introducing Walker Percy: Philosopher of Precision and Soul- Leslie MarshAn overview of Percy's life and work.
2. Percy, Peirce and Parsifal: Intuition's Farther Shore- Stephen UtzAn examination of Percy's understanding of Peirce and Chomsky's innateness hypothesis.
3. Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language- Carolyn CulbertsonAn emphasis on Heidegger and the philosophy of language.
4. That Mystery Category "Fourthness" and Its Relationship to the Work of C. S. Peirce- Stacey E. AkePercy, Pierce, semiotics and phenomenology.
5. Diamonds in the Rough: The Peirce-Percy Semiotic in The Second Coming- Karey PerkinsEmphasizing the Peirce-Percy semiotic in Percy's fiction.
6. Walker Percy's Intersubjectivity: An Existential Semiotic or 3 + 3 = 4- Rhonda McDonnellEmphasizing the existentialist-type semiotic in Percy's work.
7. A Hard Fact of Life: A Commentary on Percy's "Peirce and Modern Semiotic"- Kenneth Laine KetnerThe doyen of Peirce-Percy studies examines a heretofore unpublished Percy MS.
8. An Attempt Toward A Natural/UnNatural History of The Lay-Scientific Interface or HowWalker Percy Got on the Way to Becoming a Radical (Anthropologist)- Scott CunninghamExcavating Percy's attempt at a scientific-philosophical anthropology.
9. Percy's Poetics of Dwelling: The Dialogical Self and the Ethics of Reentry in The LastGentleman and Lost in the Cosmos- Christopher YatesAn examination of Existential authenticity in one novel and in a prominent last work of non-fiction.
10. Placement, Nonplacement, Displacement: Walker Percy and the Philosophy of Place- Patrick ConnellyDiscussion of situated beings and the relation to social identity and personhood.
11. Jadedness, Appreciation, and Humility: Walker Percy's Philosophical Contributions- Nathan CarsonPercy on psychological jadedness and its theological-philosophical-epistemic implications.
12. Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction- Brian A. SmithDiscussion of socio-cultural alienation in Percy's work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030085872
• ISBN13: 9783030085872
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"