[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."
>
>     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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