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Existentialists and Mystics Hardcover - 1997

by Iris Murdoch


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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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Essays on philosophy and art by one of Britain's greatest novelists and thinkers. Until the appearance of this volume they have been scattered in anthologies and periodicals. The editor has included such classics as Against Dryness and Murdoch's evaluations of certain of her contemporaries.

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  • Title Existentialists and Mystics
  • Author Iris Murdoch
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chatto & Windus, London
  • Date 1997
  • ISBN 9780701166298 / 0701166290
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801
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