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Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher. This collection offers a sustained examination of key aspects to his more technical philosophy (primarily semiotics and the philosophy of language) as well as some of his lesser known philosophical interests, including the philosophy of place and dislocation. Contributors expound upon Percy's multifaceted philosophy, an invitation to literature and theology scholars as well as to philosophers who may not be familiar with the philosophicalunderpinnings of his work.

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Introduction

Marsh Leslie

1-20

Percy, Peirce, and parsifal

Utz Stephen

21-40

Walker Percy, phenomenology, and the mystery of language

Culbertson Carolyn

41-61

That mystery category "fourthness" and its relationship to the work of C. S. Peirce

Ake Stacey E.

63-87

Diamonds in the rough

Perkins Karey

89-113

Walker Percy's intersubjectivity

McDonnell Rhonda R.

115-132

To take the writer's meaning

Laine Ketner Kenneth

133-150

An attempt toward a natural/unnatural history of the lay-scientific interface or how Walker Percy got on the way to becoming a radical (anthropologist)

Cunningham Scott

151-169

Percy's poetics of dwelling

Yates Christopher

171-196

"There must be a place"

Connelly Patrick L.

197-213

On being jaded

Carson Nathan P.

215-250

Percy on the allure of violence and destruction

Smith Brian A.

251-269