Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning

ISBN-13: 9780367667870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Christopher Eagle

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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

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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

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