Description: "The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's writing reveals how these themes intersect in an overarching, positive gesture that characterizes his work. Taken together, the essays offer a more expansive understanding of McCarthy's critique of contemporary society, while providing new clarity on his vision of alternate ways of living and community beyond their present life-denying manifestations"--
Brief description: Rick Elmore, associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University, is the coeditor of The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault.
Review Quotes: "This collection charts a remarkable new direction in McCarthy studies. With insight and vigor, contributors approach the full canon of the author's works from the perspective of philosophy, ethics, politics, and character, and they expand our understanding of McCarthy immensely."--Steven Fyre, author of Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy