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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 contradicto...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Political companions to great American authors.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.