![]() He believes that, too often, we shy away from words and arguments which don’t fit our worldview, which keeps us stuck in one mindset and hinders any chance of self-improvement. ![]() Percy takes a new approach to the genre by, instead, making his readers feel they are part of a moving, evolving “conversation,” and encouraging them to engage with all ideas, even ones which they don’t agree with. The average self-help book doesn’t equip readers with the tools to help themselves-rather, it offers them fancy-sounding snippets that only work in theory. Self-help books are built around solutions and philosophical maxims that sound good but don’t teach readers anything useful. However, he’s conscious of their major collective flaw. ![]() Percy isn’t trying to negate the value of self-help books in principle. He was best known for his 1961 novel, The Moviegoer, which Time magazine named one of the best English-language books published since 1923. ![]() Percy is regarded as one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. First published by Picador in 1983 and winner of the 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, Lost in the Cosmos mocks traditional self-help books and the complex, moral abstractions they are based on. ![]() Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book is a satirical self-help book by Walker Percy. ![]()
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