The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the OtherIn Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us. |
Contents
THE DELTA FACTOR | 3 |
THE LOSS OF THE CREATURE | 46 |
METAPHOR AS MISTAKE | 64 |
THE MAN ON THE TRAIN | 83 |
NOTES FOR A NOVEL ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD | 101 |
THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE | 119 |
THE MYSTERY OF LANGUAGE | 150 |
TOWARD A TRIADIC THEORY OF MEANING | 159 |
CULTURE THE ANTINOMY OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD | 215 |
SEMIOTIC AND A THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE | 243 |
SYMBOL CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY | 265 |
SYMBOL AS HERMENEUTIC IN EXISTENTIALISM | 277 |
SYMBOL AS NEED | 288 |
A THEORY OF LANGUAGE | 298 |
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THE SYMBOLIC STRUCTURE OF INTERPERSONAL PROCESS | 189 |
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