Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher. This collection offers a sustained examination of key aspects to his more technical philosophy (primarily semiotics and the philosophy of language) as well as some of his lesser known philosophical interests, including the philosophy of place and dislocation. Contributors expound upon Percys multifaceted philosophy, an invitation to literature and theology scholars as well as to philosophers who may not be familiar with the philosophical underpinnings of his work.
Foreword
Richard Gunderman
The significance of Walker Percy from the perspective of a practising medical clinician and philosopher-ethicist.
1. Introducing Walker Percy: Philosopher of Precision and Soul
Leslie Marsh
An overview of Percys life and work.
2. Percy, Peirce and Parsifal: Intuitions Farther Shore
Stephen Utz
An examination of Percys understanding of Peirce and Chomskys innateness hypothesis.
3. Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language
Carolyn Culbertson
An emphasis on Heidegger and the philosophy of language.
4. That Mystery Category Fourthness and Its Relationship to the Work of C. S. Peirce
Stacey E. Ake
Percy, Pierce, semiotics and phenomenology.
5. Diamonds in the Rough: The Peirce-Percy Semiotic in The Second Coming
Karey Perkins
Emphasizing the Peirce-Percy semiotic in Percys fiction.
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