A thief of Peirce
Subtitle: the letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy
By: edited by Patrick H. Samway.
Contributors: Percy, Walker, 1916-; Samway, Patrick H.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914.; Ketner, Kenneth Laine -- Correspondence.; Percy, Walker, 1916- -- Correspondence.; Semiotics.
Description: Throughout his literary career Walker Percy read and studied the philosophical thought of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) in an attempt to re-present in language the world as Percy knew it.

Beginning in 1984 and ending in 1990, the year of his death, Percy corresponded with Kenneth Laine Ketner about the "semiotic" of Peirce. Their letters - honest, instructive, and often filled with down-home humor - record an epistolary friendship of two men both passionately interested in Peirce's theory of signs. This volume of letters provides a rich philosophical perspective for better understanding the fiction and nonfiction of Walker Percy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index.