James Agee: A Life, and: Conversations with Walker Percy, and: Letters to Bab: Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley, 1916-33 (review)

Eugene T. Carroll

doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0518

James Agee: A Life, and: Conversations with Walker Percy, and: Letters to Bab: Sherwood Anderson to Marietta D. Finley, 1916-33 (review)

MFS Modern Fiction Studies ◽

10.1353/mfs.0.0518 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 273-276

Author(s):

Eugene T. Carroll

Keyword(s):

Walker Percy ◽

Sherwood Anderson ◽

James Agee

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Walker Percy, The Thanatos Syndrome, New York: Farrar-Straus Giroux, 1987

Moreana ◽

10.3366/more.1991.28.4.19 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 28 (Number 108) (4) ◽

pp. 115-116

Author(s):

Germain Marc’hadour

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Walker Percy

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: The Moviegoer . Walker Percy.

Film Quarterly ◽

10.1525/fq.1962.16.2.04a00340 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 59-59 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Walker Percy ◽

The Moviegoer

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Novelists of the Third Phase of the Renaissance: Walker Percy, Madison Jones and Barry Hannah

Revue Française d Etudes Américaines ◽

10.3406/rfea.1985.1191 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 13-24

Author(s):

Jan Nordby Gretlund

Keyword(s):

Walker Percy ◽

The Third ◽

Third Phase

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Minds, Machines, and Giving a Damn

10.1093/oso/9780190682156.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Chodat

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

West Coast ◽

Human Action ◽

Walker Percy ◽

Christian Life ◽

The 1960S ◽

Partial Success ◽

The Way

The 1960s saw the triumph of cognitive science over behaviorism. This chapter examines three literary–philosophical objections to this shift: “West Coast” phenomenology, Richard Powers’s Galatea 2.2, and the writings of Walker Percy, the first of the postwar sages featured in this book. For “West Coast” philosophers, cognitive science ignores the way human action is structured by what we “give a damn” about—a sense of significance that orients our actions. Powers’s novel goes a step further: no more than machines do we know what to give a damn about. Percy’s essays and fiction challenge both these positions, asking us to see analogies between the significance we find in language and the significance we find in living a Christian life. Establishing such an analogy is the goal of Percy’s 1971 Love in the Ruins, which seeks to embody—with only partial success—what terms such as “faith” and “community” might mean.

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