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Literature | Philosophy | Theology
Tales That Tell: Moral Devastation & Original Sin in Literature (Pt. 3)
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
6:00 pm EST - 7:00 pm EST
Description
The Catastrophe of the Self: Walker Percy on Sin and Transcendence
Throughout his writings, Walker Percy explores modern man’s catastrophic failure to understand who he is. This talk will explain Percy’s diagnosis of this catastrophe–its nature and causes–and various false avenues of escaping it. We will pay particular attention to how Percy’s understanding of the spiritual crisis of modernity–a crisis of self-knowledge– plays out in his science fiction novel, Love in the Ruins.
About the Speaker
Jennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012.
