Im Ken Mitchell curently a grad student at St. Louis. Universtiy
in brief,
I'm begginning research on my disseratation on Peirce and Percy
hope to work out Peirce's semiotics and metaphysics as a foundation for
Percy's work on the self or what i like to call for better or worse
"existential semiotics"
especially interested in the connections between language and the self, along
with establishing methods appr. for understaning the self and doing
philosophical anthropology (for eg. the role of narrative, especially
fiction, as a form of self knowledge)
related interests lie in philosophy of religion, Kierkegaard (hoping to work
him into my dissertaion establishing links between he and Peirce through
Percy), Marcel and other "existentialists", Charles Taylor, phenomonolgy,
metaphysics and so forth...
hope this brief and random info will give you some indication as to what im
up to...
by the way any thoughts on what Percy means ( in the Moviegoer) when Binx
suggests that buisnessmen are the best metaphysicians???
also, does anyone know the reference to an article written awhile back on
Heidegger, Percy, the Moviegoer and time... (someone recently suggested i
try to find it)???
thanks,
km