Cowboy metaphysics: ethics and death in westerns
"Peter A. French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world, he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most...
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Lanham [u.a.]
Rowman & Littlefield
1997
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| Summary: | "Peter A. French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world, he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most prominent ethicists of the past three centuries." |
| Physical Description: | XII, 162 S. |
| ISBN: | 0847686701 084768671X |
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| adam_text | COWBOY METAPHYSICS:
ETHICS AND DEATH IN WESTERNS
Peter A French
ROWMAN amp; LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC
Lanham • Boulder • New York • Oxford
CONTENTS
Preface ix
1 A Clash of Cares 1
2 The Mount and the Mountains 13
3 The Shadow of Death 47
4 Tragedy, Grace, and Pride 75
5 Aristode Contemplating the Dying Duke 107
6 The Death of Death 135
Afterword 151
Bibliography 153
Index 159
About the Author 163
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