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To say Percy was unimpressed with deconstructionism seems to be an
understatement, based on his writings. And, while I imagine that there are
good post-modernist readings of Percy, a great deal of post-modernist art, it
seems to me, denies meaning and asserts a sliding scale of values and
truths. But maybe post-modernism isn't the worst of atheistic
existentialism, nihilism, deconstruction, and positivism dressed in glitzy
wrappings. While I made my earlier point in a bit of a smart-assed
fashion, just a consideration of LITC shows that he has moved beyond
post-modernism (having never succumbed to the posturing that much of it--Baz
Luhrman films, for example--is). The point is that the bomb hasn't
dropped, immediate total annihilation isn't imminent (still to this
day) so we'd better find a new way of dealing with each other and our
world. For Percy, (and I state the obvious, with apologies) the center of
that new way is language.
Rhonda
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