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O'Connor, P. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6877-2603,
2017.
Anti-matters: mortal ethics in Cormac McCarthy's The road.
European Journal of American Studies, 12 (3).
ISSN 1991-9336
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Abstract
This article proposes that to understand the ethical and philosophical dimensions of Cormac McCarthy's work one must engage in an articulation of mortal ethics. To do this, it is necessary to understand how The Road depicts the material destruction of the world, and the ethical consequences such physical destruction imposes on the novel's central protagonists. More specifically, this article argues that Cormac McCarthy's The Road presents an anti-metaphysics with consequences for understanding philosophical concepts of memory and community, as well as McCarthy's effort to construct universal forms of being together.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Description: | Special issue of the European Journal of American Studies: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds | ||||
| Publication Title: | European Journal of American Studies | ||||
| Creators: | O'Connor, P. | ||||
| Publisher: | European Association for American Studies | ||||
| Date: | 2017 | ||||
| Volume: | 12 | ||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1991-9336 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Arts and Humanities | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 20 Apr 2017 15:24 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2018 16:36 | ||||
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30524 |
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