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Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Hardcover)
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Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (Hardcover)
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
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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.
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