Name: Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Politics, Literature, & Film) (en Inglés)
Price: 548.66 PEN
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Author: Brian A Smith
ISBN: 9781498537544

portada Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Politics, Literature, & Film) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Lexington

Autor

Brian A Smith

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

230

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781498537544

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia y crítica literaria

Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Politics, Literature, & Film) (en Inglés)

Brian A Smith (Autor) · Lexington · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Politics, Literature, & Film) (en Inglés)"

Walker Percy is one of America's great novelists, and he ought to be known as a political thinker as well. In Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer, Brian A. Smith makes the case that we should understand Percy's novels and essays together as a guide to living in a complex world. Percy cultivated a philosophical and literary approach that revealed the fault lines in the modern mind. He portrayed man as a wayfarer: peristantly unsatisfied and wandering in search of a perfectly complete solution to life's dilemmas. His writing captures the restlessness of the human heart and allows us to comprehend our temptation to escape our sense of alienation and longing. Drawing ideas from philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and literature, Percy's multidimensional account of American political life shows the ways that today's approaches to life often fall short and leave us more unsatisfied with ourselves and others than ever. Percy hoped we would evade the temptations to escape the life of the wayfarer and accept our misplaced longings, alienation, depression, and anxiety as part of the human condition. Failing to do this might lead us to accept ever more extreme political and social ideas as the basis for life. The promise of embracing Percy's political teaching is that we might then be able to accept ourselves as we really are in order to join with others in authentic community.