St. Augustine's Press Montgomery makes a retrospective journey with Walker Percy, as Percy comes to an
accommodation with the modern world in company with other companionable
The Waste Land
Recovering, he begins to read and read: Gabriel Marcel, Kierkegaard, St. Thomas
Aquinas, Camus and Sartre and Eliot and others. And he begins distinguishing between valid science and scientism as knowing of reality, recognized as limited by the finiteness of the intellectual soul. Percy left the field of medicine to doctor to man in a different way.
Unlike, say, Eliot, whose irony was sardonic and self-lacerating, leading to a nervous
suspending radical judgment, then, that he will write Lost in the Cosmos , subtitled The Last Self-Help Book Cosmos
deportment to existence itself in celebration of that sacredness.
Thus Percy speaks a manner, not presuming himself the agent of grace through
Marion Montgomery is the author of many work on literature, philosophy, and culture, including Making: The Proper Habit of Our Being and Romancing Reality: Homo Viator and the Scandal Called Beauty
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