[percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 2

Justin Bonanno bonannju at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 10:27:44 EDT 2023


Thank you, Henry! I'd like to acknowledge Leslie Marsh and Rhonda McDonnell
for their help in bringing the manuscript to fruition. A special thanks,
also, goes to those responsible for bringing *Symbol & Existence *into
print. This book helped immensely in my attempt to better understand
Percy's semiotics.

In essence, the book is about meaning, symbols, and existence. I work
through the intellectual roots of Percy's thought in Maritain, Heidegger,
Susanne Langer, etc. The book can serve as both an intro to Percy's
semiotic thought and an explication of the importance of his work for our
current historical moment. It could make for a good text in a graduate
seminar on semiotics, hermeneutics, and/or philosophy of communication. It
could also serve as a useful guide if you'd like to understand what Percy
is up to in *Lost in the Cosmos. *

I wish the book wasn't so prohibitively expensive. But alas, I had little
(no) control over the price. C'est la vie. If you have a library budget,
perhaps you'd consider requesting that it get added to your library
collection. The semester has just begun here, so things are about to get
rather hectic. However, if I find some time in the next few months, perhaps
I will post a talk or video reflecting upon the book's contents.

God bless,
Justin

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> Congratulations to listserv member Justin N. Bonanno on the release of his
> new study, "Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the
> Ruins? (Springer International Publishing, 2023). Here following is
> information for members to enjoy, including how to access at no cost the
> first 23 pages of the book's introduction.
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> Congratulations, Justin! We're all esteemed to have you as a part of the
> Percy-L community. Members are invited to offer their remarks and
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> Best regards, Henry Mills
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> Publisher?s Overview:
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> In this book, Justin N. Bonanno builds off of the recent philosophical work
> on Walker Percy?s writings. While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a
> novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the perspective of Continental
> philosophy and the rhetorical tradition. Unpacking the works of several key
> authors that influenced Percy (e.g. Sartre and Heidegger), Bonanno offers a
> fresh philosophical account of Percy's ideas concerning the relationship
> between symbols and existence. In particular, he focuses on how Percy?s
> ideas emerge from the thought of Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Jacques
> Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, Viktor
> Shklovsky, S?ren Kierkegaard, and St. Thomas Aquinas.
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> Book Introduction:
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> For the first 23 pages of the book?s introduction, including its table of
> contents, go to Google Books
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> https://www.google.com/books/edition/Walker_Percy_and_the_Crisis_of_Meaning/SbnQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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> Henry P. Mills III
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Justin Bonanno, PhD
https://jnbonanno.com
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