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BIBLIOGRAPHY Alarcón, Daniel Cooper. “All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy’s Mexican Representations.” Cormac McCarthy: New Directions.Ed.James D. Lilley. Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, 2002: 141–52. Print. Andersen, Elizabeth. The Mythos of Cormac McCarthy: A String in the Maze. Saarbrucken: Verlag Dr. Muller, 2008. Print. Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Penguin, 1977. Print. –––. Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy. Ed. Ronald Beiner. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. Print. –––. The Life of the Mind: One: Thinking. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Print. –––. The Life of the Mind: Willing. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Print. –––. “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy.” Responsibility and Judgment. Ed. Jerome Kohn. New York: Schocken Books, 2003: 49–146. Print. 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