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

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

Congratulations to listserv member Justin N. Bonanno on the release of his new study, "Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins” (Springer International Publishing, 2023). Here following is information for members to enjoy, including how to access at no cost the first 23 pages of the book's introduction.

Congratulations, Justin! We're all esteemed to have you as a part of the Percy-L community. Members are invited to offer their remarks and encouraged to forward the announcement on to others.

Best regards, Henry Mills

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Publisher’s Overview: 

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.

Book Introduction:

For the first 23 pages of the book’s introduction, including its table of contents, go to Google Books

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Walker_Percy_and_the_Crisis_of_Meaning/SbnQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

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Henry P. Mills III

Director & Editor, The Walker Percy Project

www.ibiblio.org/wpercy

wppdirector AT gmail.com