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EXISTENTIALISTS AND MYSTICS gathers together for the first time in one volume the most influential and inspiring of Iris Murdoch's essays and shorter pieces - including major critiques of existentialism written in the fifties, important essays such as 'The Sublime and the Good', and her two Platonic dialogues on art and religion. There are also incisive evaluations of the thinking and writings of T S Eliot, Simone Weil, Gabriel Marcel, Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir and Elias Canetti: and key texts on the concept of love, on Tolstoy versus Kant, and on the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy.
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Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin and grew up in London. She trained as a philosopher at both Oxford and Cambridge, and was for many years a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she taught philosophy, and has been an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College since 1977. She has written several acclaimed works of philosophy, 26 novels including THE SEA, THE SEA which won the Booker Prize in 1978, also plays, a libretto and a volume of poetry. Iris Murdoch died in 1999.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Best known as the author of 26 novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. This work gathers for the first time in one volume her most influential essays and shorter pieces. Included are her major critiques of existentialism written in the 1950s, her two Platonic dialogues on art and religion, incisive evaluations of the writings of T.S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Bauvoir, and Elias Canetti, as well as key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, on the concept of love, and of the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy. This volume confirms Iris Murdoch's major contributions to the literature and thought of the 20th century. Seller Inventory # CIN0140264922G