Existentialists And Mystics Writings On Philosophy And Literature

Author: Iris Murdoch; Peter Conradi (Editor); George Steiner (Foreword by)

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  • : $59.99 AUD
  • : 9780140264920
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : 0.521631
  • : July 1999
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  • : Iris Murdoch; Peter Conradi (Editor); George Steiner (Foreword by)
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"Best known for her novels and longer philosophical works, Iris Murdoch is also a brilliant essayist and critic. Existentialists and Mystics gathers together for the first time in one volume the most influential and inspiring of her essays and shorter pieces." "The selection, by Professor Peter Conradi, starts with an illuminating interview of Dame Iris Murdoch by Bryan Magee, and is organized to illustrate her training and development as a thinker, her rejection of the sterility of Anglo-American and Sartrean philosophers alike, and her journey toward Platonism and a practical mysticism. She negotiates her ideological opponents with elegance and scruple, and draws on a novelist's insight into art and literature to throw new light on philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved