Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism

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 sh...