The Message in the Bottle

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The Message in the Bottle

First edition
Author	Walker Percy
Language	English
Genre	Non-fiction: essays
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	1975
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	335 pgs
ISBN	1-399-23128-6

The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other is a collection of essays on semiotics written by Walker Percy and first published in 1975. Percy writes at what he sees as the conclusion of the modern age and attempts to create a middle ground between the two dying ideologies of that age: Judeo-Christian ethics, which give the individual freedom and responsibility; and the rationalism of science and behavioralism, which positions man as an organism in an environment and strips him of this freedom.