This book explores the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of philosophical inquiry into his writings. Essays center on various philosophical themes including violence, war, nature, history, materiality, and the environment. Emphasizing the form of McCarthy's texts, they attend to the ways in whi
This book explores the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of philosophical inquiry into his writings. Essays center on various philosophical themes including violence, war, nature, history, materiality, and the environment. Emphasizing the form of McCarthy's texts, they attend to the ways in whi
Chris Eagle is a Senior Lecturer in the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University.
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CONTENTS 1: Editor's Introduction: Beyond Reckoning Chris Eagle 2: "Cloaca Maxima": Conceptualizing Matter in Cormac McCarthy's Southern Fiction Julius Greve 3: The Cave of Oblivion: Platonic Mythology in Child of God Dianne C. Luce 4: "The Ruined Shack": Language and Being-at-Home in Heidegger and McCarthy's Outer Dark Robert Metcalf 5: Literature and Death: McCarthy, Blanchot, and Suttree's Mortal Belonging Patrick O'Connor 6: Heraclitus and the Metaphysics of War in Blood Meridian Ian Alexander Moore 7: Borders, Landscapes, and the Earth: Eco-Phenomenology and All the Pretty Horses Zachary Tavlin 8: "The Lighted Display Case": A Nietzschean Reading of Cormac McCarthy's Border Fiction1 Linda Woodson 9: "For the other only." The radical existentialism of the Priest's Tale in The Crossing Jenny Bryant and Robert Bernasconi 10: Narrative Disruption as Animal Agency in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing Raymond Malewitz 11: Fantasy and the Expiration of Nature: The Road as Film Ryan Drake 12: Seeing Nothing: Making Phenomenological Sense of the Counterspectacle in McCarthy's The Road Yuliya Tsutserova 13: Nowhere between river and road: A Nagelian reading of Suttree and The Road Alberto L. Siani Notes on Contributors Index
CONTENTS 1: Editor's Introduction: Beyond Reckoning Chris Eagle 2: "Cloaca Maxima": Conceptualizing Matter in Cormac McCarthy's Southern Fiction Julius Greve 3: The Cave of Oblivion: Platonic Mythology in Child of God Dianne C. Luce 4: "The Ruined Shack": Language and Being-at-Home in Heidegger and McCarthy's Outer Dark Robert Metcalf 5: Literature and Death: McCarthy, Blanchot, and Suttree's Mortal Belonging Patrick O'Connor 6: Heraclitus and the Metaphysics of War in Blood Meridian Ian Alexander Moore 7: Borders, Landscapes, and the Earth: Eco-Phenomenology and All the Pretty Horses Zachary Tavlin 8: "The Lighted Display Case": A Nietzschean Reading of Cormac McCarthy's Border Fiction1 Linda Woodson 9: "For the other only." The radical existentialism of the Priest's Tale in The Crossing Jenny Bryant and Robert Bernasconi 10: Narrative Disruption as Animal Agency in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing Raymond Malewitz 11: Fantasy and the Expiration of Nature: The Road as Film Ryan Drake 12: Seeing Nothing: Making Phenomenological Sense of the Counterspectacle in McCarthy's The Road Yuliya Tsutserova 13: Nowhere between river and road: A Nagelian reading of Suttree and The Road Alberto L. Siani Notes on Contributors Index
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