Philosopher of Precision and Soul: Introducing Walker Percy

This article introduces the work of philosopher-novelist Walker Percy to the Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science readership. After some biographical and contextual preliminaries, I suggest that the conceptual collecting feature to Percy's work is his critique of abstractionism manifest in a...

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Published in:Zygon
Subtitles:Walker Percy: pathologist, philosopher, and novelist
Main Author: Marsh, Leslie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: Zygon
Further subjects:B Scientism
B Philosophical literature
B Walker Percy
B Religion
B Science
B Self
B Semiotics
B Abstraction
B Rationalism
B Consumerism
B progressivism
B Ideology
B Identity
B Existentialism
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Summary:This article introduces the work of philosopher-novelist Walker Percy to the Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science readership. After some biographical and contextual preliminaries, I suggest that the conceptual collecting feature to Percy's work is his critique of abstractionism manifest in a tripartite congruence of Cartesianism, derivatively misapplied science, and social atomism.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12306