Matter of High Words: Naturalism, Normativity, and the Postwar Sage

by Robert Chodat

Book Overview

In a world of matter, how can we express what matters? When the explanations of the natural sciences become powerfully precise and authoritative, what is the status of our highest words, the languages that articulate our norms and orient our lives? The Matter of High Words examines a constellation of American writers who in the decades since World War II have posed these questions in distinctive ways. Walker Percy, Marilynne Robinson, Ralph Ellison,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190682159
• ISBN13: 9780190682156
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"