Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned

By: Patrick O'Connor

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Hardcover | 1 January 1900

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This book explores Cormac McCarthy's literature (novels, plays, screenplays, philosophical essays and unpublished archive material) to uncover a distinct literary philosophy. More specifically, this study elucidates how McCarthy articulates a philosophical perspective which pivots on philosophical themes of mortality, the political, education, nihilism, materialism and language. Tracing these themes from the publication of his earliest novels to his most recent philosophical essays, this book argues that McCarthy offers a unique synthesis of spiritual, ethical and materialist concerns, the understanding of which is essential for coming to terms with his literature.

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Patrick O'Connor offers a new approach to examining philosophy and Cormac McCarthy. Much ink has been spilled on philosophy in the works of McCarthy. Into that ink-strewn field, Patrick O'Connor's Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned enters the arena, a force to be reckoned with. McCarthy writes 'literary philosophy'--as distinct from writing philosophical literature, O'Connor contends. His literary prose approaches philosophical concepts with attention to the material world reflective of the ancient Greek idea of physis. Dense with provocative insights and unified by a clarity of vision, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand McCarthy's works and the ethos that drives them. Illuminated by extensive discussions of some of McCarthy's most understudied works and new interpretations of some of his most challenging, O'Connor makes a strong case for McCarthy's idiosyncratic and iconoclastic philosophical and literary vision. He finds in the pages of McCarthy's works a philosophy perilously close to nihilism; but at the center of everything is a deep and essential mystery, and it is mystery that holds nihilism at bay.--Lydia R. Cooper, Creighton University

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