Overview

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 relationship between language and world, and the place of the subject within history, temporality, and borders. To this end, the contributors to this collection focus on how McCarthy’s writings speak to various philosophical themes, including violence, war, nature, history, materiality, and the environment. Emphasizing the form of McCarthy’s texts, the chapters attend to the myriad ways in which his language effects a philosophy of its own, beyond the thematic content of his narratives. Bringing together scholars in contemporary philosophy and McCarthy Studies, and informed by the release of the Cormac McCarthy Papers, the volume reflects on the theoretical relationship between philosophical thinking and literary form. This book will appeal to all scholars working in the rapidly-growing field of McCarthy Studies, Philosophy and Literature, and to philosophers working on a wide range of problems in ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Film across ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy.

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Author:   Christopher Eagle (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138910652

ISBN 10:   1138910651
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   27 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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.

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