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...
Subtitles: | Walker Percy: pathologist, philosopher, and novelist |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Zygon
Year: 2016, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 983-998 |
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. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12306 |