That Mystery Category “Fourthness” and Its Relationship to the Work of C. S. Peirce
In Walker Percy, Philosopher Charles Sanders Peircephenomenologysemioticsstacey akeWalker Percy
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Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language
In Walker Percy, Philosopher Carolyn CulbertsonphenomenologyPhilosophy of LanguagesemioticsWalker Percy
Percy, Peirce, and Parsifal: Intuition’s Farther Shore
In Walker Percy, Philosopher LinguisticsNoam ChomskyPeircephilosophical literaturesemioticsstephen utzWalker Percy
Philosopher of Precision and Soul
In Walker Percy, Philosopher abstractioncomplexityphilosophical literatureRobert MusilScientismWalker Percy
Percy: The Wondering Physician-Philosopher
In: Walker Percy, Philosopher Richard Gunderman A woman lies in a coma, having been admitted to the intensive care unit following a beating by her lead pipe-wielding boyfriend. She is alive, but her neurologic prognosis is uncertain. The chaplain assigned to the case hovers outside her door, afraid to enter. A man of peace, he anticipates…
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Forthcoming: Walker Percy, Philosopher. Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction Brian A. Smith Anxiety concerning the decline and fall of civilization appears throughout Walker Percy’s body of work. Smith argues that what sets Percy’s account of this issue apart from others rests in his preoccupation not so much with depicting actual disaster for what…
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Forthcoming: Walker Percy, Philosopher. “There Must Be a Place”: Walker Percy and the Philosophy of Place Patrick L. Connelly Patrick Connelly explores Walker Percy’s contribution to the philosophy of place by examining place-thinking in his fiction and nonfiction. Percy is first put in conversation with the contemporary philosopher of place Edward S. Casey. Both writers understand place as a source…
