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Kudos to you, Justin!! I’m so excited to read your work. I don’t usually pay library prices but for a Percy book it will be worth it! I hope some others on the list can find a way to access it as well.
It would be fabulous if you could join us at the South Atlantic MLA conference either this year or next. You could join a Percy panel and give us a 20 minute version of Lost in the Cosmos through the lens of your research. What do you think?
Best to you,
Rhonda
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On Aug 21, 2023, at 10:28 AM, Justin Bonanno <bonannju AT gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you, Henry! I'd like to acknowledge Leslie Marsh and Rhonda McDonnell for their help in bringing the manuscript to fruition. A special thanks, also, goes to those responsible for bringing
Symbol & Existence into print. This book helped immensely in my attempt to better understand Percy's semiotics.
In essence, the book is about meaning, symbols, and existence. I work through the intellectual roots of Percy's thought in Maritain, Heidegger, Susanne Langer, etc. The book can serve as both an intro to Percy's semiotic thought and an explication of the
importance of his work for our current historical moment. It could make for a good text in a graduate seminar on semiotics, hermeneutics, and/or philosophy of communication. It could also serve as a useful guide if you'd like to understand what Percy is up
to in Lost in the Cosmos.
I wish the book wasn't so prohibitively expensive. But alas, I had little (no) control over the price. C'est la vie. If you have a library budget, perhaps you'd consider requesting that it get added to your library collection. The semester has just begun
here, so things are about to get rather hectic. However, if I find some time in the next few months, perhaps I will post a talk or video reflecting upon the book's contents.
God bless,
Justin
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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, S?ren 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
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