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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe, epub Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe, pdf |
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Named Person: | Walker / 1916-1990 / Political and social views Percy; Walker Percy |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Augustine Lawler; Brian A Smith |
ISBN: | 9780813147420 0813147425 9780813141886 0813141885 |
OCLC Number: | 1002269622 |
Description: | 285 Seiten |
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. |
Series Title: | Political companions to great American authors |
Responsibility: | edited by Peter Augustine Lawler and Brian A. Smith. |
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