Anti-Matters: Mortal Ethics in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

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 phy...

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Main Author: Patrick Damien O’Connor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2017-11-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12337