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Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning book cover

1st Edition

Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy Beyond Reckoning

Edited By Christopher Eagle Copyright 2017
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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This book is the first edited collection to explore the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of philosophical inquiry into McCarthy’s writings. There is a strong and growing interest amongst philosophers in the relevance of McCarthy’s writings to key debates in contemporary philosophy, for example, debates on trauma and violence, on the... Read more

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

Biography

Chris Eagle is a Senior Lecturer in the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University.

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