Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and LiteratureBest 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. |
Contents
Metaphysics and Ethics | |
Vision and Choice in Morality | |
PART THREE Encountering Existentialism 195059 | |
Outline of a Theory | |
The Existentialist Political Myth | |
Hegel in Modern Dress | |
Existentialists and Mystics | |
Salvation by Words | |
PART SIX Can Literature Help Cure the Ills of Philosophy? 195961 | |
Against Dryness | |
On God and Good | |
The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts | |
Why Plato Banished the Artists | |
A Dialogue about | |
Knowing the Void | |
Mass Might and Myth | |
PART FIVE Towards a Practical Mysticism 195978 | |
A Dialogue about Religion | |
AUTHORS NOTE | |
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