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Return to Good and Evil

Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism

von: Henry T. Edmondson, Marion Montgomery
48,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	24.09.2002
ISBN/EAN:	9780739160336
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	224

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Titelbeschreibung

While Flannery O'Connor is hailed as one of the most important writers of the twentieth-century American south, few appreciate O'Connor as a philosopher as well. In Return to Good and Evil, Henry T. Edmondson introduces us to a remarkable thinker who uses fiction to confront and provoke us with the most troubling moral questions of modern existence. 'Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul,' O'Connor once said, in response to the nihilistic tendencies she saw in the world around her. Nihilism—Nietzche's idea that 'God is dead'—preoccupied O'Connor, and she used her fiction to draw a tableau of human civilization on the brink of a catastrophic moral, philosophical, and religious crisis. Again and again, O'Connor suggests that the only way back from this precipice is to recognize the human need for grace, redemption, and God. She argues brilliantly and persuasively through her novels and short stories that the Nietzschean challenge to the notions of good and evil is an ill-conceived effort that will result only in disaster. With rare access to O'Connor's correspondence, prose drafts, and other personal writings, Edmondson investigates O'Connor's deepest motivations through more than just her fiction and illuminates the philosophical and theological influences on her life and work. Edmondson argues that O'Connor's artistic brilliance and philosophical genius reveal the only possible response to the nihilistic despair of the modern world: a return to good and evil through humility and grace.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor; and like O'Connor's stories themselves, it is captivating, provocative, and unsettling. Edmondson organizes O'Connor's thought around her principal concern, that with the nihilistic claim that 'God is dead' the traditional signposts of good and evil have been lost. Edmondson's book demonstrates that the combination of O'Connor's artistic brilliance and philosophical genius provide the best response to the nihilistic despair of the modern world—a return to 'good and evil' through humility and grace.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Faith, Philosophy, and Fiction
 Chapter 2 O'Connor contra Nihilism
 Chapter 3 Modern Man as Malgre Lui in Wise Blood
 Chapter 4 Wise Blood and the Difficult Return to God
 Chapter 5 Good Country People and the Seduction of Nihilism
 Chapter 6 The Nature of Evil in The Lame Shall Enter First
 Chapter 7 Social Change in The Enduring Chill
 Chapter 8 Modernity versus Mystery in A View of the Woods
 Chapter 9 Redemption and the Ennoblement of Suffering in The Artificial Nigger
 Chapter 10 Grace, the Devil, and the Prophet