Philosophical Approaches to Cormac Mccarthy - Beyond Reckoning

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

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Eagle, Christopher (University of Western Sydney Eagle
• Assisted by: Chris Eagle (Editor), Christopher Eagle (Editor), Eagle Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367667870
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66787-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism