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A Political Companion to Walker Percy /
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradict...
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Lexington :
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2013.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Walker Percy, American political life, and indigenous American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler and Brian A. Smith -- Walker Percy: a brief biography / Ralph C. Wood -- The moviegoer's cartesian theater: moviegoing as Walker Percy's metaphor for the cartesian mind / Woods Nash -- Walker Percy's critique of the pursuit of happiness in the moviegoer, lost in the cosmos: the last self-help book, and the Thanatos Syndrome / Elizabeth Amato -- On dealing with man / James V. Schall, S.J -- Walker Percy's 'theory of man' and the elimination of virtue / Nathan P. Carson -- Confessing the horrors of radical individualism in Lancelot: Percy, Dostoevsky, Poe / Farrell O'Gorman -- Walker Percy's alternative to scientism in the Thanatos Syndrome / Micah Mattix -- Love and marriage among the ruins / Richard M. Reinsch II -- Walker Percy's last men: love in the ruins as a fable of American decline/ Brian A. Smith -- The second coming of Walker Percy: from segregationist to integrationist / Brendan P. Purdy and Janice Daurio -- Walker Percy, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the stoic and Christian foundations of American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler. | |
| 520 | |a In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory foundations of American life as a situation faced by the wandering and won-dering human soul. His controversial works combined existential questioning, scientific investigation, the insight of the southern stoic, and authentic religious faith to produce a singular view of humanity's place in. | ||
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