The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy

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.

Jonathan Elmore, associate professor of English at Louisiana Tech University, is the editor of Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss.

Rick Elmore, associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University, is the coeditor of The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault.