Walker Percy, Philosopher

ISBN-13: 9783319779676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Leslie Marsh

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Foreword

• Richard Gunderman

The 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 Marsh

An overview of Percy’s life and work.

2. Percy, Peirce and Parsifal: Intuition’s Farther Shore

• Stephen Utz

An examination of Percy’s understanding of Peirce and Chomsky’s innateness hypothesis.

3. Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language

• Carolyn Culbertson

An 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. Ake

Percy, Pierce, semiotics and phenomenology.

5. Diamonds in the Rough: The Peirce-Percy Semiotic in The Second Coming

• Karey Perkins

Emphasizing the Peirce-Percy semiotic in Percy’s fiction.

6. Walker Percy’s Intersubjectivity: An Existential Semiotic or 3 + 3 = 4

• Rhonda McDonnell

Emphasizing 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 Ketner

The doyen of Peirce-Percy studies examines a heretofore unpublished Percy MS.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 How

Walker Percy Got on the Way to Becoming a Radical (Anthropologist)

• Scott Cunningham

Excavating Percy’s attempt at a scientific-philosophical anthropology.

9. Percy’s Poetics of Dwelling: The Dialogical Self and the Ethics of Reentry in The Last

Gentleman and Lost in the Cosmos

• Christopher Yates

An 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 Connelly

Discussion of situated beings and the relation to social identity and personhood.

11. Jadedness, Appreciation, and Humility: Walker Percy’s Philosophical Contributions

• Nathan Carson

Percy on psychological jadedness and its theological-philosophical-epistemic implications.

12. Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction

• Brian A. Smith

Discussion of socio-cultural alienation in Percy’s work.

O autorze

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. 

Blurb

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.