A political companion to Walker Percy / edited by Peter Augustine Lawler and Brian A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawler, Peter Augustine, editor.

Smith, Brian A., editor.

Series:

Political companions to great American authors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Political and social views.

Percy, Walker.

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction: Walker Percy, American political life, and indigenous American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler and Brian A. Smith

Walker Percy: a brief biography / Ralph C. Wood

The moviegoer's cartesian theater: moviegoing as Walker Percy's metaphor for the cartesian mind / Woods Nash

Walker Percy's critique of the pursuit of happiness in the moviegoer, lost in the cosmos: the last self-help book, and the Thanatos Syndrome / Elizabeth Amato

On dealing with man / James V. Schall, S.J

Walker Percy's 'theory of man' and the elimination of virtue / Nathan P. Carson

Confessing the horrors of radical individualism in Lancelot: Percy, Dostoevsky, Poe / Farrell O'Gorman

Walker Percy's alternative to scientism in the Thanatos Syndrome / Micah Mattix

Love and marriage among the ruins / Richard M. Reinsch II

Walker Percy's last men: love in the ruins as a fable of American decline/ Brian A. Smith

The second coming of Walker Percy: from segregationist to integrationist / Brendan P. Purdy and Janice Daurio

Walker Percy, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the stoic and Christian foundations of American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813141886

0813141885

OCLC:

818735097