Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins

Bonanno, Justin N.

In this book, Justin N. Bonanno builds off of the recent philosophical work on Walker Percy’s writings. While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the perspective of Continental philosophy and the rhetorical tradition. Unpacking the works of several key authors that influenced Percy (e.g. Sartre and Heidegger), Bonanno offers a fresh philosophical account of Percy's ideas concerning the relationship between symbols and existence. In particular, he focuses on how Percy’s ideas emerge from the thought of Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Viktor Shklovsky, Søren Kierkegaard, and St. Thomas Aquinas. 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-08-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031370229

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37023-6

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 195.0