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Return to Good and Evil
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While Flannery OConnor is hailed as one of the most important writers of the twentieth-century American south, few appreciate OConnor 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, OConnor once said, in response to the nihilistic tendencies she saw in the world around her. Nihilism-Nietzches idea that God is dead-preoccupied OConnor, 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, OConnor 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 OConnors correspondence, prose drafts, and other personal writings, Edmondson investigates OConnors deepest motivations through more than just her fiction and illuminates the philosophical and theological influences on her life and work. Edmondson argues that OConnors 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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