From: Jay Thompson <jay_thompson AT rocketmail.com>
To: "percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and Percy
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:13:58 -0700 (PDT)
I have read Lost in the Cosmos, Message in a Bottle, and Signposts. Loved all three of them and I agree that Percy's insights speak pointedly to the wasteland that Post-structuralism has created and definitely speaks to the matter of science's inability to speak to genuine human experience. The fact that the masses engage in this "scientism" is disheartening; the fact that biology, semiotics, anthropology, and the rest continue to be disingenuous all the while duping multitudes of intellectuals is worse.
Jay Thompson AP Literature, AP Language
Contemporary Literature, Shakespeare
Newburg High School
Newburg, Missouri 65550
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Nice to see some action on the Percy list. I'd just add that the essays are not highly
technical and many speak directly to the issues of "the culture wars" today. I read Message in the Bottle first, but more from Signposts struck a chord for me, maybe because I was already a convert in regard to symbolic thought. Fateful Rift: San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind in Signposts couldn't be more germane to today's debates centered around "scientism."
Ken A
On 6/18/2012 1:45 AM, janet cantor wrote: > Oops, I'm so self absorbed I didn't realize I just repeated a lot from > my earlier post. Sorry about that. > And thanks John E. Riley for your response. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/attachments/20120618/1776bf66/attachment-0001.html