Overview
- Offers interdisciplinary appeal for scholars beyond literary studies, including those in philosophy, religion, film studies, and American Studies
- Examines the whole of McCarthy’s canon including his famed novels: Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road
- Uniquely approaches McCarthy not just as a writer but also a contemporary philosopher
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Reviews
“Given the breadth of his corpus . . . McCarthy would seem to pose an unusual challenge for this kind of analysis. Undeterred, Ty Hawkins takes up the challenge in his new book Cormac McCarthy’s Philosophy—an audacious and often brilliant amplification of this form of literary scholarship and an important critical resource for understanding McCarthy’s oeuvre. . . . [F]uture Cormackians will find much to ponder as they think through and with Hawkins’s McCarthian philosophy.”
—Raymond Malewitz, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Vol. 16 (1), 2018
“In this book that is simultaneously concise and formidable, Ty Hawkins traces Cormac McCarthy's philosophical engagement (a project that has previously been undertaken by many) in order to argue that McCarthy's oeuvre demonstrates a coherent and consistent philosophy of its own (a project that has seldom been attempted.) Hawkins succeeds here because of the depth and breadth of his own knowledge and his strong powers of analysis and synthesis. To read this book is to see what's possible with the right tools--a theme that's not unheard of in McCarthy, either.”—Stacey Peebles, Editor, The Cormac McCarthy Journal and NEH Associate Professor of English and Director of Film Studies, Centre College, USA
"The field of Cormac McCarthy scholarship has long been concerned with the philosophical nature of his fiction [ . . . ]. While much of the existing scholarship on McCarthy and philosophy [ . . . ] paints McCarthy as a representative of this or thatphilosophical school--what Hawkins describes as the 'McCarthy and' approach--Hawkins proposes the far more 'radical' claim that 'McCarthy is an actual philosopher.' The radicality of this claim rests on the notion that while influenced by various philosophical and theological traditions, McCarthy nevertheless develops his own, entirely original philosophical position complete with metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics. [ . . . ] More than any other study, Hawkins' explicitly categorizes McCarthy as a philosopher, as 'advancing a systematic philosophy of his own.'"
—Rick and Jonathan Elmore, "Cormac McCarthy, Philosopher," Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, Vol. 9 (1), 2021.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cormac McCarthy’s Philosophy
Authors: Ty Hawkins
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47367-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47366-6Published: 21 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83721-5Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47367-3Published: 10 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 145
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature