Cormac McCarthy's Philosophy

This study contends that American writer Cormac McCarthy not only is philosophical, or a "writer of ideas," but rather that he has a philosophy. Devoting one main chapter to each facet of McCarthy's thought - his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, respectively - the study engages in focused readings of all of McCarthy's major works. Along the way, the study brings McCarthy's ideas into conversation with a host of philosophers who range from Plato to Alain Badiou, with figures such as William James, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Slavoj Zizek featured prominently. Situated at the crossroads of literary studies, literary theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, and theology, the appeal of Cormac McCarthy's Philosophy is widespread and deeply interdisciplinary.  

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. Metaphysics.- 2. Epistemology and Modernity.- 3. Ethics and Narrative.- Index. 

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ty Hawkins is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Central Arkansas, USA. His previous works include Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror (2012).

Andrew Kim is Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Humanities and Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University, USA. He is the author of An Introduction to Catholic Ethics since Vatican II (2015).

Zusammenfassung

This study contends that American writer Cormac McCarthy not only is philosophical, or a “writer of ideas,” but rather that he has a philosophy. Devoting one main chapter to each facet of McCarthy’s thought – his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, respectively – the study engages in focused readings of all of McCarthy’s major works. Along the way, the study brings McCarthy’s ideas into conversation with a host of philosophers who range from Plato to Alain Badiou, with figures such as William James, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Slavoj Žižek featured prominently. Situated at the crossroads of literary studies, literary theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, and theology, the appeal of Cormac McCarthy’s Philosophy is widespread and deeply interdisciplinary.  

Bericht

"Given the breadth of his corpus . . . McCarthy would seem to pose an unusual challenge for this kind of analysis. Undeterred, Ty Hawkins takes up the challenge in his new book Cormac McCarthy's Philosophy-an audacious and often brilliant amplification of this form of literary scholarship and an important critical resource for understanding McCarthy's oeuvre.  . . . [F]uture Cormackians will find much to ponder as they think through and with Hawkins's McCarthian philosophy." (Raymond Malewitz, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Vol. 16 (1), 2018)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ty Hawkins
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.08.2018
• EAN: 9783319837215
• ISBN: 978-3-31-983721-5
• Seiten: 145
• Abmessung: 147 mm x 211 mm x 10 mm
• Gewicht: 212 g
• Illustration: VII, 145 p.
• Serie: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; C, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Contemporary Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature, Modern—21st century, America—Literatures, North American Literature