The Message in the Bottle How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

by Percy, Walker

• ISBN13: 9780312254018
• ISBN10: 0312254016
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

In Message i n the Bottle , Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.

Author Biography

Walker Percy is the author of over ten books, many of which were bestsellers, and he is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time.

Table of Contents

The Delta Factor	3	(43)
The Loss of the Creature	46	(18)
Metaphor as Mistake	64	(19)
The Man on the Train	83	(18)
Notes for a Novel About the end of the World	101	(18)
The Message in the Bottle	119	(31)
The Mystery of Language	150	(9)
Toward a Triadic Theory of Meaning	159	(30)
The Symbolic Structure of Interpersonal Process	189	(26)
Culture: The Antinomy of the Scientific Method	215	(28)
Semiotic and a Theory of Knowledge	243	(22)
Symbol, Consciousness, and Intersubjectivity	265	(12)
Symbol as Hermeneutic in Existentialism	277	(11)
Symbol as Need	288	(10)
A Theory of Language	298	(33)
Bibliography	331

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