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020 _a9780813141893
020 _z9780813141886 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPS3566.E6912
_bZ795 2013
082 0 0 _a813/.54
_223
245 0 2 _aA political companion to Walker Percy
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Peter Augustine Lawler and Brian A. Smith.
260 _aLexington, Kentucky :
_bUniversity Press of Kentucky,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (285 pages )
490 0 _aPolitical companions to great American authors
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aPercy, Walker,
_d1916-1990
_xPolitical and social views.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aSmith, Brian A.,
_d1980-
_eeditor of compilation.
700 1 _aLawler, Peter Augustine,
_eeditor of compilation.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813141893/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33012
_d33012