Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
by:
Walker Percy (author)
Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think...
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Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction. This favorite of Percy fans continues to charm and beguile readers of all tastes and backgrounds. Lost in the Cosmos invites us to think about how we communicate with our world.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374191665 (0374191662)
Publish date: June 1st 1983
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages no: 262
Edition language: English
Walker Percy is that rare thing, an American existentialist. And this book is that rare thing that both infuriates and inspires. I cannot do this book justice in any kind of summary, but the best I can attempt is this: it is a spirituality/philosophy tract posing as some kind of crazed pseudo-per...
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