Walker Percy and the crisis of meaning : communication in the ruins / Justin N. Bonanno.
2023
PS3566.E6912 Z973 2023
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Title
Walker Percy and the crisis of meaning : communication in the ruins / Justin N. Bonanno.
Author
Bonanno, Justin N., author.
ISBN
9783031370236 electronic book
3031370236 electronic book
3031370228
9783031370229
3031370236 electronic book
3031370228
9783031370229
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
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10.1007/978-3-031-37023-6 doi
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PS3566.E6912 Z973 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.54
Summary
"In this resounding response to contemporary crises of meaning, Justin Bonanno digs deeper than ever before into Walker Percys philosophical influences, putting us back in touch with existence, showing us how to search for truth across traditions, helping us confront our failure to know ourselves, and revealing the symbolic in-between as the only way to quench our thirst for the real." Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, author Semiotics of X, Co-Editor-in-Chief Semiotica "In this rich and scholarly work, Justin Bonanno demonstrates deep learning by comparatively engaging a wide range of topics and scholars. He powerfully shows how Walker Percy's semiotic theory provides invaluable resources for critiquing nominalism and for leading the way to a robust philosophical realism. For anyone interested in grasping Percy's contributions to philosophy and approach toward a meaningful life, this is must read material." Corey Anton, Grand Valley State University, USA In this book, Justin N. Bonanno builds off of the recent philosophical work on Walker Percys 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 Percys ideas emerge from the thought of Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Viktor Shklovsky, Sren Kierkegaard, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Justin N. Bonanno holds a PhD in rhetoric from Duquesne University, USA. He teaches at Ave Maria University, USA.
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WALKER PERCY AND THE CRISIS OF MEANING.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: C1 Consciousness and the Epiphany of Meaning
Chapter 3: C2 Consciousness and the Unspeakable Self
Chapter 4: C3 Consciousness and the Defamiliarization of the God-Man
Chapter 5: Truth and Meaning
Chapter 6: Love and Meaningfulness.
Chapter 2: C1 Consciousness and the Epiphany of Meaning
Chapter 3: C2 Consciousness and the Unspeakable Self
Chapter 4: C3 Consciousness and the Defamiliarization of the God-Man
Chapter 5: Truth and Meaning
Chapter 6: Love and Meaningfulness.