Cormac McCarthy's Neoliberalism (eBook)

A Breakdown in Mercantile Ethics

Brian James Schill (Herausgeber)

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2025 | 1, with a Foreword by David Holloway
240 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-938-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In Cormac McCarthy's Neoliberalism: Breakdown in Mercantile Ethics, editor Brian James Schill gathers insightful essays that probe how McCarthy's works have commented on and caricatured the economic, political, and cultural forces of neoliberalism. Spanning McCarthy's career from Suttree to his final novels The Passenger and Stella Maris, this volume positions McCarthy as both a chronicler of and a participant in the neoliberal era. The contributors explore how McCarthy's fictionsoften set against vast, barren landscapesreflect the predatory logic of neoliberal capitalism, marked by economic inequality, environmental degradation, and social upheaval. The nine essays presented here argue that McCarthy's critiques go beyond the superficial and delve deeply into the material and cultural conditions shaped by neoliberal governance. By examining the commodification and accumulation of wealth, both in the settings of his novels and the lives of his characters, McCarthy is revealed as both a sharp observer of the social consequences of unchecked capitalist expansion and a participant in that expansion. Ultimately, Cormac McCarthy's Neoliberalism demonstrates how the master's works grapple with the ways in which neoliberalism has reshaped human relationships, from the intimate to the institutional, while casting a spotlight on those left behind by global economic forces.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: blood meridian neoliberalism • Breakdown • Capitalism • Cormac McCarthy • cormac mccarthy friedman • cormac mccarthy hayek • cormac mccarthy's capitalism • cormac mccarthy's neoliberalism • Friedrich Hayek • literary fiction neoliberalism • literature neoliberalism • mccarthy and capitalism • mccarthy and foucault • mccarthy political economy • mccarthy scholarship • mercantile ethics • Michel Foucault • Milton Friedman • neoliberal • neoliberal art • Neoliberalism • neoliberal literary fiction • Santa Fe Institute
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-938-7 / 1621909387
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-938-5 / 9781621909385