2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Walker Percy's 1961 National Book Award-winning debut novel — about Binx Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who attends movies compulsively while searching for meaning — the most philosophically sophisticated American Southern novel.
American novelist and essayist — author of The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, and Love in the Ruins — who converted to Catholicism after contracting tuberculosis in medical school — the most philosophically sophisticated American Catholic novelist.