Cormac McCarthy, philosophy and the physics of the damnedPatrick O'Connor.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.
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McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 --Philosophy. McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 --Criticism and interpretation.