Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031370229)

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.

Author: Justin N. Bonanno
ISBN-10: 3031370228
ISBN-13: 9783031370229
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/13/2023
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d