Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning : Communication in the Ruins (1st ed. 2023. 2023. xiii, 195 S. XIII, 195 p. 4 illus. 210 mm)

In this book, Justin N. Bonanno builds off of the recent philosophical work on Walker Percy's writings. While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the perspective of Continental philosophy and the rhetorical tradition. Unpacking the works of several key authors that influenced Percy (e.g. Sartre and Heidegger), Bonanno offers a fresh philosophical account of Percy's ideas concerning the relationship between symbols and existence. In particular, he focuses on how Percy's ideas emerge from the thought of Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Viktor Shklovsky, Søren Kierkegaard, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: C1 Consciousness and the Epiphany of Meaning.- Chapter 3: C2 Consciousness and the Unspeakable Self.- Chapter 4: C3 Consciousness and the Defamiliarization of the God-Man.- Chapter 5: Truth and Meaning.- Chapter 6: Love and Meaningfulness. Justin N. Bonanno holds a PhD in rhetoric from Duquesne University, USA. He teaches at Ave Maria University, USA.