From kareyperkins at gmail.com Wed Aug 2 15:40:36 2023 From: kareyperkins at gmail.com (Karey Perkins) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 15:40:36 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Call for Papers: SAMLA Nov. 9-11, 2023 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Percy list! I am extending the deadline for Percy paper submissions at SAMLA, this November 9-11, 2023 to Sunday, August 6, 2023 (this Sunday). We already have four great papers to present, but I just wanted to give others a chance to join us if you?re interested. This year?s conference will be IN-PERSON (!) for the first time in three years, so it should be a great time for all! If you have a paper idea that you can develop into a 10-page, double-spaced paper to present by November 9, send an abstract (a title and paragraph) to me (kareyperkins at gmail.com and kperkin1 at scsu.edu ) by this Sunday, August 6, so I can include you in the SAMLA Walker Percy sessions for the 2023 year. Topics are open; anything related to Percy?s fiction or non-fiction will work! Ideas related to the conference theme (In)Security (see https://samla.memberclicks.net ) are also welcome. As a reminder, here is the Call for Papers; Walker Percy and (In)Security Papers for this traditional session may focus on any aspect of Walker Percy?s life and works, either fiction or non-fiction. Especially welcome are topics relevant to the SAMLA 95 conference theme: (In)Security. Possible topics include but are not limited to: How Percy?s apocalyptic novels (Love in the Ruins, The Thanatos Syndrome) and non-fiction (Review of A Canticle for Leibowitz, end of Lost in the Cosmos) reflect our collective future insecurities. What Percy?s portrayal of the political divide in America (Leftpapas and Knotheads, black vs. white, social and economic classes in conflict) reveals about today?s divisions that threaten to tear apart our country and democracy. How identity is related to insecurity: Psychiatry is a central element of every Percy novel, portraying many anxious psychological patients, insecure in their selves, identities, and roles in society. Consider also that Percy often wrote that individual psychological ills are often produced as a coping mechanism for societal sickness. What do Percy?s writings show about how technology and the unfettered pursuit of capitalism might challenge the idea of what it is to be a human being? Consider his use of tech such as lapsometers (seen as a cure for spiritual ills) or Americans? role as primarily consumers in a capitalist world (replacing a well-developed inner life), or other aspects/topics in his fiction and nonfiction. What is the future of Percy studies, considering Percy?s status as a regularly taught topic in English departments today seems precarious as well. Do alterations to the literary canon and challenges to academic freedom threaten the place of a Percy scholar in academia today? Please send 300-word abstracts on these topics or ANY aspect of Percy?s fiction or non-fiction (not just limited to conference theme of ?(In)Security?) by August 6, 2023, to Dr. Karey Perkins, South Carolina State University, to both kperkin1 at scsu.edu and kareyperkins at gmail.com. Please also include a brief bio and any A/V requirements in your abstract. I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! Karey Karey Perkins, M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Faculty Senate Secretary 296A Turner Hall, South Carolina State University Orangeburg, SC 29117 kperkin1 at scsu.edu | 803-536-7016 www.scsu.edu Member, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-0002 kareperk at ttu.edu | https://www.depts.ttu.edu/pragmaticism/ https://www.kareyperkins.net/ On Jul 10, 2023, at 11:00 AM, Karey Perkins wrote: Hi Percy peeps! As many of you may already know, the annual SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) conference is coming up this November 9-11, 2023, in Atlanta, GA. Barring a new pandemic, another hurricane, or some other unforeseen catastrophe that has beleaguered us lately, it looks like we will be meeting IN-PERSON for the first time in three years! I especially enjoy the in-person experience, being able to chat with those who know and love Percy as I do?hopefully this year that will happen. We always have a strong Walker Percy presence at SAMLA (whether remote or in-person), and we hope to have that once again! Just a reminder: Here again is the Percy CFP; topics are open and flexible as long as they are related to either Percy?s fiction or philosophy, but if you do have a topic related to the conference theme (more info on that here: https://samla.memberclicks.net/), please submit it! 300-word abstracts are due by August 6 to kareyperkins at gmail.com and kperkin1 at scsu.edu . Some ideas for topics include: Walker Percy and (In)Security Papers for this traditional session may focus on any aspect of Walker Percy?s life and works, either fiction or non-fiction. Especially welcome are topics relevant to the SAMLA 95 conference theme: (In)Security. Possible topics include but are not limited to: How Percy?s apocalyptic novels (Love in the Ruins, The Thanatos Syndrome) and non-fiction (Review of A Canticle for Leibowitz, end of Lost in the Cosmos) reflect our collective future insecurities. What Percy?s portrayal of the political divide in America (Leftpapas and Knotheads, black vs. white, social and economic classes in conflict) reveals about today?s divisions that threaten to tear apart our country and democracy. How identity is related to insecurity: Psychiatry is a central element of every Percy novel, portraying many anxious psychological patients, insecure in their selves, identities, and roles in society. Consider also that Percy often wrote that individual psychological ills are often produced as a coping mechanism for societal sickness. What do Percy?s writings show about how technology and the unfettered pursuit of capitalism might challenge the idea of what it is to be a human being? Consider his use of tech such as lapsometers (seen as a cure for spiritual ills) or Americans? role as primarily consumers in a capitalist world (replacing a well-developed inner life), or other aspects/topics in his fiction and nonfiction. What is the future of Percy studies, considering Percy?s status as a regularly taught topic in English departments today seems precarious as well. Do alterations to the literary canon and challenges to academic freedom threaten the place of a Percy scholar in academia today? Please send 300-word abstracts on these topics or ANY aspect of Percy?s fiction or non-fiction (not just limited to conference theme of ?(In)Security?) by July 28, 2023, to Dr. Karey Perkins, South Carolina State University, to both kperkin1 at scsu.edu and kareyperkins at gmail.com. Please also include a brief bio and any A/V requirements in your abstract. I hope everyone is doing well and having a wonderful summer! Karey Karey Perkins, M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Faculty Senate Secretary 296A Turner Hall, South Carolina State University Orangeburg, SC 29117 kperkin1 at scsu.edu | 803-536-7016 www.scsu.edu Member, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-0002 kareperk at ttu.edu | https://www.depts.ttu.edu/pragmaticism/ https://www.kareyperkins.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Sat Aug 19 13:09:21 2023 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry P. Mills III) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:09:21 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, 2023 Message-ID: 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. 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 encouraged to forward the announcement on to others. Best regards, Henry Mills -- Publisher?s Overview: 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. Book Introduction: For the first 23 pages of the book?s introduction, including its table of contents, go to Google Books https://www.google.com/books/edition/Walker_Percy_and_the_Crisis_of_Meaning/SbnQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 -- Henry P. Mills III Director & Editor, The Walker Percy Project www.ibiblio.org/wpercy wppdirector at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bonannju at gmail.com Mon Aug 21 10:27:44 2023 From: bonannju at gmail.com (Justin Bonanno) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:27:44 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 12:00?PM wrote: > Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the Crisis of > Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, 2023 > (Henry P. Mills III) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:09:21 -0400 > From: "Henry P. Mills III" > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > > Subject: [percy-l] NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the > Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, > 2023 > Message-ID: > < > CAPHQa6T0vZJFGh+AhFv3jG3s6+oRZDGCuG0k0tSx4CjZTcUNTA at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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. > > > 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 > encouraged to forward the announcement on to others. > > Best regards, Henry Mills > > > -- > > Publisher?s Overview: > > 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. > > > Book Introduction: > > For the first 23 pages of the book?s introduction, including its table of > contents, go to Google Books > > > https://www.google.com/books/edition/Walker_Percy_and_the_Crisis_of_Meaning/SbnQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 > > > > -- > > Henry P. 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URL: From rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Mon Aug 21 11:31:48 2023 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:31:48 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Kudos to you, Justin!! I?m so excited to read your work. I don?t usually pay library prices but for a Percy book it will be worth it! I hope some others on the list can find a way to access it as well. It would be fabulous if you could join us at the South Atlantic MLA conference either this year or next. You could join a Percy panel and give us a 20 minute version of Lost in the Cosmos through the lens of your research. What do you think? Best to you, Rhonda Sent from my iPhone On Aug 21, 2023, at 10:28 AM, Justin Bonanno wrote: ? 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 On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 12:00?PM > wrote: Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org You can reach the person managing the list at percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, 2023 (Henry P. Mills III) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:09:21 -0400 From: "Henry P. Mills III" > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > Subject: [percy-l] NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, 2023 Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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. 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 encouraged to forward the announcement on to others. Best regards, Henry Mills -- Publisher?s Overview: 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. Book Introduction: For the first 23 pages of the book?s introduction, including its table of contents, go to Google Books https://www.google.com/books/edition/Walker_Percy_and_the_Crisis_of_Meaning/SbnQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 -- Henry P. Mills III Director & Editor, The Walker Percy Project www.ibiblio.org/wpercy wppdirector at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From lowry.charles at gmail.com Mon Aug 21 13:58:09 2023 From: lowry.charles at gmail.com (Charles Lowry) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:58:09 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Henry, dear Justin, dear Rhonda and Percyesque folks, I am always delighted to see new work on Percy, and I congratulate you, Justin, on what is surely, from the information available, a very useful contribution. Nor am I surprised to see an acknowledgment of Rhonda?s contribution: our list would be a poorer place without her. I have always found Percy?s philosophical works (or such ones as I have tried) to be pretty stiff going. On the other hand, I have never found novels that involve me more, move me more, cause me to reflect more, than Percy?s. I therefore ask, simply, ?What is the link?? I am a sincere Percy reader but no Percy scholar. I shall be grateful if astute list members can point me to work that examines this link. I?m sure there are studies that can get me thinking about the question of whether Percy was one author or two authors; I just do not know where to look. There is, though, a more fundamental question: does it matter? Can Percy the philosopher exist without Percy the novelist? Can Percy the novelist exist without Percy the philosopher? Camus, in *The Myth of Sisyphus*, says that a person's mind can be trained to follow one of two paths through life, either the path of evidence or the path of lyricism. Is it as simple as that? Does Percy the philosopher follow the path of evidence and Percy the novelist the path of lyricism? Is someone who cherishes the novels shorting himself by not mastering and appreciating the philosophical works? In a similar vein, does someone who has mastered the philosophical works of Percy short himself if, having read the novels of Percy, he is not moved by them, does not reflect on them? In an interview, the perspicacious scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson talked about the literary canon and specifically that the canon is only valuable because of the way we live the lessons of the content of the canon, the wisdom of the canon. The novels of Percy demand a response; do the philosophical works of Percy demand a response? In short, what do students of Percy the novelist and Percy the philosopher have to say to one another? One can confidently pose such a question because of the breadth of learning and generosity of list members. Finally, in much the same way that Cato the Elder ended every speech in the Senate by noting that, in addition to anything else, Carthage must be destroyed, I seem to end every note to this list by offering thanks and praise to Henry for his expert and wide-ranging management of this list: bravo, Henry. Chuck Lowry Brooklyn, New York Sent from my iPhone On Aug 21, 2023, at 11:32 AM, RHONDA MCDONNELL wrote: ? Kudos to you, Justin!! I?m so excited to read your work. I don?t usually pay library prices but for a Percy book it will be worth it! I hope some others on the list can find a way to access it as well. It would be fabulous if you could join us at the South Atlantic MLA conference either this year or next. You could join a Percy panel and give us a 20 minute version of Lost in the Cosmos through the lens of your research. What do you think? Best to you, Rhonda Sent from my iPhone On Aug 21, 2023, at 10:28 AM, Justin Bonanno wrote: ? 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 On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 12:00?PM wrote: > Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the Crisis of > Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, 2023 > (Henry P. Mills III) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:09:21 -0400 > From: "Henry P. Mills III" > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > > Subject: [percy-l] NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the > Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, > 2023 > Message-ID: > < > CAPHQa6T0vZJFGh+AhFv3jG3s6+oRZDGCuG0k0tSx4CjZTcUNTA at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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. > > > 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 > encouraged to forward the announcement on to others. > > Best regards, Henry Mills > > > -- > > Publisher?s Overview: > > 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. > > > Book Introduction: > > For the first 23 pages of the book?s introduction, including its table of > contents, go to Google Books > > > https://www.google.com/books/edition/Walker_Percy_and_the_Crisis_of_Meaning/SbnQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 > > > > -- > > Henry P. 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URL: From bonannju at gmail.com Tue Aug 22 17:59:27 2023 From: bonannju at gmail.com (Justin Bonanno) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:59:27 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Rhonda, I'm honored for the invitation to attend SAMLA. This year won't work, as I have a conference in Maryland around that same time period (11/15 thru 11/19). However, I'm certainly open to attending SAMLA in future years. In the very least, I'd love to get the chance to meet everyone still taking an active interest in Percy's work in person! -- Thank you for your kind words, Chuck. You ask good questions. I think you can appreciate Percy as a philosopher or as a novelist. Both of these categories, I think, Percy would consider reifications, a way of trying to size him up and place him in the world. All our reifications ultimately fail to capture the existential reality of the person. And yet, we reify, anyway. Personally, I prefer to categorize Percy neither as a philosopher nor as a novelist (both profitable enterprises, to be sure) but as a rhetorician. :) -jnb On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:05?PM wrote: > Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Percy-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 2 (Charles Lowry) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:58:09 -0400 > From: Charles Lowry > To: "Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical > Discussion" > Subject: Re: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 2 > Message-ID: > < > CADDsyCOKGaTFWh+BEFBbyCheG_M7H92zDCdWzLqsKXqQ5zBkgg at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear Henry, dear Justin, dear Rhonda and Percyesque folks, > > I am always delighted to see new work on Percy, and I congratulate you, > Justin, on what is surely, from the information available, a very useful > contribution. Nor am I surprised to see an acknowledgment of Rhonda?s > contribution: our list would be a poorer place without her. > > I have always found Percy?s philosophical works (or such ones as I have > tried) to be pretty stiff going. On the other hand, I have never found > novels that involve me more, move me more, cause me to reflect more, than > Percy?s. I therefore ask, simply, ?What is the link?? > > I am a sincere Percy reader but no Percy scholar. I shall be grateful if > astute list members can point me to work that examines this link. I?m sure > there are studies that can get me thinking about the question of whether > Percy was one author or two authors; I just do not know where to look. > > There is, though, a more fundamental question: does it matter? Can Percy > the philosopher exist without Percy the novelist? Can Percy the novelist > exist without Percy the philosopher? Camus, in *The Myth of Sisyphus*, > says that a person's mind can be trained to follow one of two paths through > life, either the path of evidence or the path of lyricism. Is it as simple > as that? Does Percy the philosopher follow the path of evidence and Percy > the novelist the path of lyricism? Is someone who cherishes the novels > shorting himself by not mastering and appreciating the philosophical > works? In a similar vein, does someone who has mastered the philosophical > works of Percy short himself if, having read the novels of Percy, he is not > moved by them, does not reflect on them? In an interview, the > perspicacious scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson talked about the literary canon > and specifically that the canon is only valuable because of the way we live > the lessons of the content of the canon, the wisdom of the canon. The > novels of Percy demand a response; do the philosophical works of Percy > demand a response? In short, what do students of Percy the novelist and > Percy the philosopher have to say to one another? > > One can confidently pose such a question because of the breadth of learning > and generosity of list members. > > Finally, in much the same way that Cato the Elder ended every speech in the > Senate by noting that, in addition to anything else, Carthage must be > destroyed, I seem to end every note to this list by offering thanks and > praise to Henry for his expert and wide-ranging management of this list: > bravo, Henry. > > Chuck Lowry > Brooklyn, New York > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 21, 2023, at 11:32 AM, RHONDA MCDONNELL > wrote: > > ? Kudos to you, Justin!! I?m so excited to read your work. I don?t usually > pay library prices but for a Percy book it will be worth it! I hope some > others on the list can find a way to access it as well. > > It would be fabulous if you could join us at the South Atlantic MLA > conference either this year or next. You could join a Percy panel and give > us a 20 minute version of Lost in the Cosmos through the lens of your > research. What do you think? > > Best to you, > > Rhonda > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 21, 2023, at 10:28 AM, Justin Bonanno wrote: > > ? > 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 > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 12:00?PM > wrote: > > > Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to > > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the Crisis of > > Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. Bonanno, 2023 > > (Henry P. Mills III) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:09:21 -0400 > > From: "Henry P. Mills III" > > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > > > > Subject: [percy-l] NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - "Walker Percy and the > > Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins, " Justin N. > Bonanno, > > 2023 > > Message-ID: > > < > > CAPHQa6T0vZJFGh+AhFv3jG3s6+oRZDGCuG0k0tSx4CjZTcUNTA at mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 > > encouraged to forward the announcement on to others. > > > > Best regards, Henry Mills > > > > > > -- > > > > Publisher?s Overview: > > > > 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. > > > > > > Book Introduction: > > > > For the first 23 pages of the book?s introduction, including its table of > > contents, go to Google Books > > > > > > > https://www.google.com/books/edition/Walker_Percy_and_the_Crisis_of_Meaning/SbnQEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Henry P. 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