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Return to Good and Evil - Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism (Paperback)
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Return to Good and Evil - Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism (Paperback)
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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.
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