Contemporary Cowboys

Clint Jones is full-time instructor of philosophy at Capital University.

• Chapter 1: The Gaucho in a Globalized WorldAdam Barkman & Enzo GuerraChapter 2.: The Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: Judge Holden andHeraclitusJerold J. AbramsChapter 3: Horse Sense: Discerning a Dialectic of Human Relations from Buckand The Rider”Jennifer L. McMahonChapter 4: Should’ve Been a Cowboy’: Changing Yet Stable Representations of theCowboy in Modern American Country MusicGillian KellyChapter 5: Can You Hear Me? Springsteen’s ‘Outlaw Pete’ as American ‘HeroLilian Haney and John ThompsonChapter 6: “I Can’t Go Back”: The Re-imagination of Space in Feminist WesternsKaren AdkinsChapter 7: They Forgot to Put in the Quit’: Representations of Whiteness andFoundation Myths in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”Misty L. JamesonChapter 8. Slow Cowboys and New Men: Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women andFirst CowWendy Chapman PeekChapter 9. Rewriting the Western Myth: Marcia Muller’s Private Eye on CaliforniaCindy HamiltonChapter 10. The Lone Wolf and the Wi

Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture offers a rich portrait of a shape-shifting American archetype in the twenty-first century. These scholars approach the frontier and the cowboy in many mediums and from a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives. Far from dying out, the Western rides on in new and surprising forms.