Existentialists And Mystics: Writings On Philosophy And Literature - Hardcover

Steiner, George; Murdoch, Iris; Conradi, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713992255 ISBN 13: 9780713992250

Publisher: Allen Lane, 1998

Synopsis

A collection of the author's most influential essays and short works includes her critique of existentialism, her two dialogues on art and religion, key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, the concept of love, and more.

About this title

Book Description:

Profound yet accessible essays on philosophy and art by one of our greatest novelists and thinkers.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0713992255
• ISBN 13: 9780713992250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576