TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Brian A. AU - Lawler,Peter Augustine ED - Project Muse. TI - A political companion to Walker Percy T2 - Political companions to great American authors SN - 9780813141893 AV - PS3566.E6912 Z795 2013 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Lexington, Kentucky PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Percy, Walker, KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813141893/ ER -