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Walker Percy, Philosopher
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ISBN10: 3319779672
ISBN13: 9783319779676
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 13 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783319779676
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 13 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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.
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on Percy's Peirce and Modern Semiotic- Kenneth Laine KetnerThe doyen of Peirce-Percy studies examines a heretofore unpublished Percy MS.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.
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.
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