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Symbol and existence : a study in meaning : explorations of human nature / by Walker Percy ; edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner, Karey Lea Perkins, Rhonda Reneé McDonnell, Scott Ross Cunningham.

"Symbol and existence will prove fascinating to Walker Percy scholars and fans who wish to decipher Percy's authentic philosophical stance. Percy, an existentialist Catholic at his core, was also a scientist seeking an objective paradigm to portray his views. Symbol and existence demonstra...

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Main Author: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 (Author)
Corporate Author: Mercer University Press
Other Authors: Ketner, Kenneth Laine (Editor), Perkins, Karey Lea, 1958- (Editor), McDonnell, Rhonda Reneé (Editor), Cunningham, Scott Ross (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Pragmatics.
Semiotics.
Empiricism.
Existentialism.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophy and science.
Table of Contents:
  • Toward a radical science of man
  • Sign and symbol
  • The symbolic transformation
  • Magic cognition I : formation of the simulacrum
  • Magic cognition II : the law of participation
  • Symbol, consciousness, and intersubjectivity
  • Semiotic and the problem of knowledge
  • Naming and being
  • Metaphor as mistake
  • The thing in the word.

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