[percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and Percy

janet cantor janetcantor37 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 18 16:59:33 EDT 2012


Foote does read them eventually, but I loved that Percy keeps saying that when the essays are brought up, he knows he loses Foote.

--- On Mon, 6/18/12, Ken Armstrong <kennenathens at frontier.com> wrote:

From: Ken Armstrong <kennenathens at frontier.com>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and Percy
To: Percy-L at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 4:49 PM


  

    
  
    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:

              

                From: Jay Thompson <jay_thompson at rocketmail.com>

                Subject: Re: [percy-l] Scientism, Symbolic Thought, and
                Percy

                To: "percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org"
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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, 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

                          

                          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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