Format:
1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813141907
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0813141885
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0813141893
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1299734561
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9780813141909
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9780813141886
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9780813141893
,
9781299734562
Series Statement:
Political companions to great American authors
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Political companion to Walker Percy Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2013
Language:
English
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