Worldviews in Revolution

Table of Contents

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A COLLAGE OF WORLDVIEWS

PREFACE
The Primary Contention of this Book
The Position and the Means
Outline of the Book
A Note to the Reader

PART I-ON THE SHIFTING OF HUMAN WORLDVIEWS: AN INTRODUCTION
(with suggested readings for follow-up inquiry)
Human Uncertainty in the Modern Era: Copernicus through Freud
The Twentieth Century and the Triumph of Technology
Scientific Values: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Developments
Marxism and Existentialism: Two Modernist Responses
The Advent of Post-Modernism and Modern Critical Theory
Post-Modernism Embodied: Culture in the Late 20th Century
The Cumulative Result, Who Are We?-An Unanswered Question
About the Nature of Paradigm Shifts
A Caveat about Theory and Models
A Table Summary of Worldviews: From the Ancient to the Post-Modern

PART II-ON THE UNIQUENESS OF SYMBOLIZATION: WALKER PERCY
The Reflection of Language: A Problem of Circularity
Defining the Delta Factor: Towards a Triadic Model of Language
The Intentional Relation of the Sign: The Mechanics of Thought
The Welt and the Creation of Ontology
Intersubjectivity: A Tetradic Bond
The Metaphysics of "Meaning"
Scientific Methodology: A Brief Exposition
Science and the Assertory Event: Isolating Unexplained Phenomena
Humans and Chimpanzees: Marking the Differences
Summary and Implications

PART III-ON THE SEMIOTICS OF SELF: A POST-MODERN FORMULATION
Descartes and his Cogito: The Beginning of Modern Philosophy
Freud and the Unconscious: A Second Copernican Revolution
Saussure and the Founding of Semiotics, Science of Signs and Meaning
Lacan and the Symbolic Order: The Unconscious and Language
Derrida and Signification: Tracing the Pathways of Language
The Post-Structuralist Subject: The "Other" and the Deferral of Identity
Walker Percy and the Unspeakable Self: Critical Steps toward a Corrective?
The Self as Castaway and the Inescapable Search for Identity, None Excluded
Transcendence, Immanence, and Betweenness: The Existential Options
Summary and Implications

PART IV-CONCLUSION: SPECULATIONS TOWARD A FUTURE WORLDVIEW
The Singularity and Plurality of Language
Artificial Intelligence and Extra-Terrestrials? A Percyan Critique
Current Horizons: The "Strange Attractor" of Language

APPENDIX--A Walker Percy Bibliography
An Annotated Bibliography of Percy's Writings on Language (1954-1991)
A Chronological Listing of Percy's Writings on Language
A Current Bibliography of Secondary Writings on Percy's Semiotics
An Updated Bibliography of the Major Percy Resources and Criticism to 1995
The Complete Works of Walker Percy (1961-1991)
Further Suggested Readings in Semiotics

ENDNOTES

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

WALKER PERCY, A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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Other Possible Titles/ Sub-titles
The Singularity of Language: Walker Percy, Science, and the Post-Modern Worldview
Mankind and the Symbol: Walker Percy, Science and Post-Modernism/
A Reading of Science, Post-Modernity, and the Philosophy of Walker Percy
An Inquiry into Science, Post-Modernism, and their Critic, Walker Percy