Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy

Beyond Reckoning
Herausgeber: Eagle, Christopher

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 which his language affects a philosophy of its own, beyond the thematic content of his narratives. This book will appeal to scholars working in the rapidly-growing field of McCarthy Studies, Philosophy and Literature, and a range of philosophers working on problems in ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138910652
• ISBN-10: 1138910651
• Artikelnr.: 43680430

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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