Walker Percy, Philosopher

Buch | Hardcover

XXI, 280 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-77967-6 (ISBN)

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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 Percy's 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.

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.

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 To Take the Writer's Meaning: An Unpublished Manuscript on Peirce and Modern Semiotic by Walker Percy.- 8.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 Philosophyof Place.- 11. On Being Jaded: Walker Percy's Philosophical Contributions.- 12. Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	XXI, 280 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	515 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Chomsky • Heidegger • Peirce • Peirce and Modern Semiotic • Philosophy of place
ISBN-10	3-319-77967-2 / 3319779672
ISBN-13	978-3-319-77967-6 / 9783319779676
Zustand	Neuware