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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101138910651

ISBN-139781138910652

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Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NamePhilosophical Approaches to Cormac Mccarthy : Beyond Reckoning

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General

Publication Year2017

TypeTextbook

AuthorChristopher Eagle

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy

SeriesRoutledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2016-050409

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.54

Table Of ContentCONTENTS 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

SynopsisThis 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.C337Z826 2016