Cargando…
A bloody and barbarous god : the metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy /
"A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2016.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction." A direct apprehension of reality": Cormac McCarthy and the perennial philosophy
- "Terra damnata": anticosmic mysticism in Blood meridian
- "Suzerain of the earth": the mystery of the judge in Blood meridian
- "Disciples of a new faith": satanic parody in Blood meridian
- "This luminosity in beings so endarkened": gnostic soteriology in Blood meridian
- "Diverging equity": the nature of existence in All the pretty horses
- "All was fear and marvel": positive and negative epiphanies in The crossing, Book one
- "The illusion of proximity": transcendence and immanence in The crossing, Book two
- "Mourners in the darkness": blindness and insight in The crossing, Book three
- "The right and godmade sun": destiny and salvation in The crossing, Book four
- "Beauty and loss are one": transience and fate in Cities of the plain
- "The bloody and barbarous god": sin and forgiveness in Cities of the plain
- "That man who is all men": the illusory and the real in the epilogue to The border trilogy
- "In all that dark and all that cold": good and evil in No country for old men
- "All things of grace and beauty": the presence of the sacred in The road.