Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

["Henry P. Mills III" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>]

Thanks to Michael for introducing and Marc for providing materials on the topic of Percy's posthumously published Symbol and Existence: A Study in Meaning: Explorations of Human Nature (Mercer UP, 2019).
Book Description: https://www.mupress.org/Symbol-and-Existence-A-Study-in-Meaning-Explorations-of-Human-Nature-P1016.aspx

Below are two readily-accessible reviews, which Percy-L community members may find of interest.

Further discussion is, of course, most welcome, for instance: how S&E is different from Percy's Message in the Bottle and pertinent sections in his Lost in the Cosmos, or agreements/disagreements with either review below. Certainly, there is much unexplored territory in contrasting these three Percy books.

Best regards,
Henry Mills
Percy-L Administrator

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"Review of Walker Percy’s Symbol and Existence" (a short review)
November 13, 2019
Found on Percy-L member Leslie Marsh's ManWithoutQualities website.
https://manwithoutqualities.com/2019/11/13/review-of-walker-percys-symbol-and-existence/

"The Therapy of Symbols" (a more detailed review)
Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture & Science
Issue One, 2020
Joshua P. Hochschild, Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University
https://humanumreview.com/articles/the-therapy-of-symbols

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On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:15 AM Marc Jolley <JOLLEY_MA AT mercer.edu> wrote:

I am the publisher. Amazon is so weird.

 

Here is the frontmatter attached as a PDF.

 

Marc Jolley

Director

MERCER UNIVERSITY PRESS

1501 Mercer University Drive

Macon, Georgia 31207

478-301-2880

www.mupress.org

Senior Lecturer

Department of PHILOSOPHY

Mercer University

https://liberalarts.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/marc-jolley/

 

 

From: Percy-L <percy-l-bounces+jolley_ma=mercer.edu AT lists.ibiblio.org> on behalf of Michael Martin Serafin <michael_serafin AT hotmail.com>
Reply-To: "Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, May 6, 2022 at 10:08 AM
To: "percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [percy-l] "Symbol & Existence" Contents

 

Amazon does not have a "look inside" icon for "Symbol & Existence" Could someone please post the Table of Contents here? Also, those who have read it (I have not), what is your opinion?  Thanks.

 

Michael Martin Serafin

Chicopee, MA.