Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned / / Patrick O’Connor.

Explains Cormac McCarthy’s consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary outputProvides a vital interpretive framework for understanding Cormac McCarthy’s literary and philosophical perspectivesOffers a systematic study of distinctly philosophical themes present in Cormac M...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Older than Language: Cormac McCarthy on Language and Evolution in Whales and Men and ‘The Kekulé Problem’
  • Chapter 2 Literature and Death: McCarthy, Blanchot and Suttree
  • Chapter 3 Spirits in Cinderland: Blood Meridian’s Nietzsche
  • Chapter 4 In the Shadow of the Forms: The Sunset Limited as Educational Encounter
  • Chapter 5 Anti-Matters: Mortal Ethics in The Road
  • Chapter 6 Saving Sheriff Bell: Derrida, McCarthy and the Opening of Mercantile Ethics in No Country for Old Men
  • Chapter 7 A Maelstrom of Doing and Undoing: McCarthy’s Political Imaginary
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index