Existentialists and Mystics : Writings on Philosophy and Literature

by Iris Murdoch

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 0140264922

ISBN-13 9780140264920

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Books Ltd

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 1st, 1999

Print length 576 Pages

Weight 488 grams

Dimensions 13.60 x 20.30 x 3.50 cms

Product Classification: Prose: non-fiction Phenomenology & Existentialism

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Gathered together in this volume are some of Iris Murdoch's most influential writings. They include major critiques of existentialism, essays such as "The Sublime and the Good", Platonic dialogues, and analyses of key literary and philosophical figures such as T.S.Eliot and Sartre.

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch''s journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the thought and writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior, and Elias Canetti, as well as key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, on the concept of love, and the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy.Existentialists and Mystics not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch''s novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.

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