Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Existentialists And Mystics Writings On Philosophy And Literature
Author(s): Murdoch Iris
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780140264920
Pages: 576 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/1999
Category: Phenomenology & Existentialism