
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 89-113
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319779676
Full citation:
, "Diamonds in the rough", in: Walker Percy, philosopher, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018


Diamonds in the rough
the Peirce-Percy semiotic in the second coming
pp. 89-113
in: Leslie Marsh (ed), Walker Percy, philosopher, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Abstract
Karey Perkins makes the case for the view that Percy is more than a novelist with occasional random existential musings or themes. Although Percy begins in existentialism, his exploration of semiotics sparked his interest in language as the uniquely human symbolic activity. Moreover, Percy attempts a systematic philosophy based in Peirce's semiotic, by applying semiotic principles not just in his philosophical essays, but also in his novels—something rarely mentioned, even by Percy himself.
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Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 89-113
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319779676
Full citation:
, "Diamonds in the rough", in: Walker Percy, philosopher, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018