Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Politics, Literature, & Film) free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Brian A. Smith

Date:	2021	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1498537545
Pages:	230	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Walker Percy is one of Americas 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 Percys 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 lifes 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, Percys multidimensional account of American political life shows the ways that todays 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 Percys 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.
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