[percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and Percy
janet cantor
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Mon Jun 18 15:27:48 EDT 2012
I am finishing my reading of the letters between Foote and Percy and laughing at the many times Percy tells Foote that he understands how Foote finds the essays difficult. Foote also loves Proust and Percy resists. I think I have more in common with Shelby Foote than with Percy, after all.
One day I will try the essays, but not yet.
Janet
--- On Mon, 6/18/12, Jay Thompson <jay_thompson at rocketmail.com> wrote:
From: Jay Thompson <jay_thompson at rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and Percy
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Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 1:13 PM
I have read Lost in the Cosmos, Message in a Bottle, and Signposts. Loved all three of them and I agree that Percy's insights speak pointedly to the wasteland that Post-structuralism has created and definitely speaks to the matter of science's inability to speak to genuine human experience. The fact that the masses engage in this "scientism" is disheartening; the fact that biology, semiotics, anthropology, and the rest continue to be disingenuous all the while duping multitudes of intellectuals is worse. Jay Thompson
AP Literature, AP Language Contemporary Literature, ShakespeareNewburg High SchoolNewburg, Missouri 65550
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Nice to see some action on the Percy list. I'd just add that the essays
are not highly
technical and many speak directly to the issues of "the
culture wars" today. I read Message in the Bottle first, but more from
Signposts struck a chord for me, maybe because I was already a convert
in regard to symbolic thought. Fateful Rift: San Andreas Fault in the
Modern Mind in Signposts couldn't be more germane to today's debates
centered around "scientism."
Ken A
On 6/18/2012 1:45 AM, janet cantor wrote:
> Oops, I'm so self absorbed I didn't realize I just repeated a lot from
> my earlier post. Sorry about that.
> And thanks John E. Riley for your response.
>
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