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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2013.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.