The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the Other
by Walker Percy
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Author: Walker PercyEdition: Paperback
Published: 2000-04-01
ISBN: 0312254016
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Picador
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In a see of charlatans, hucksters, half-truths and snake-oil salesmen, we find this island of wisdom. Percy, a psychiatrist turned novelist, was ever a scientist. He takes his aim at a very difficult scientific issue-the study of man. It is very hard for many to study himself, but percy believes the answer to understand man lies in the study og language. As Percy himself said, just because a primate can be taught sign-language words doesn't mean we are anywhere close to understanding human language. It is a shame this author isn't more well-known.
Summary of The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the Other
In 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.
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