This book argues that McCarthy's works convey a profound moral vision, and use
intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses …

Abstract No Country for Old Men figures the convergence of economics and human nature
as the emergence of a new kind of humanity arising from a shift in economic processes. Key …

This essay charts the emergence of “rugged consumers” in contemporary American culture:
skilled laborers who confront the disappearance of manufacturing jobs during the late …

This essay examines Cormac McCarthy's antipathy toward modern ideology, or the ideas
that when taken together enable the process of top-down social transformation called …

This article explores intersections between Martin Heidegger's existentialist theories of
death and authenticity and Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. Scholars have …

This article engages debate on how Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men
(2005) grapples with what it means to live a life of courage in the face of existential threats …

Chaos was the set of ideas persuading all these scientists that they were members of a
shared enterprise. Physicist or biologist or mathematician, they believed that simple …

ABSTRACT Scholars debate whether Anton Chigurh, the villain of No Country for Old Men,
is a personification of neoliberal capitalism or motivated by philosophical obsessions with …

There is wide scholarly agreement that Outer Dark is, by and large, a tale whose nihilism
and ambiguities offer little philosophical or anthropological insight beyond a masterful …

Shortly after the film No Country for Old Men (2007) premiered in theaters, the Coen
brothers, along with actors Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, appeared on the Charlie Rose …