[percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and Percy
Ken Armstrong
kennenathens at frontier.com
Mon Jun 18 16:49:45 EDT 2012
I'm guessing he doesn't find them technically difficult, just difficult
to accept in their premises and structure..
Ken A
On 6/18/2012 3:27 PM, janet cantor wrote:
> 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:
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> From: Jay Thompson <jay_thompson at rocketmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and Percy
> To: "percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org" <percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 1:13 PM
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>
> 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, Shakespeare
> Newburg High School
> Newburg, 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."
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> Ken A
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> 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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