{"product_id":"existentialists-and-mystics-isbn-9780140264920","title":"Existentialists and Mystics","description":"Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, \u003cb\u003eIris Murdoch\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eT. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eElias Canetti\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cb\u003eExistentialists and Mystics\u003c\/b\u003e not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.Existentialists and Mystics       Foreword\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Prologue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterature and Philosophy: A Conversation with Bryan Magee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Nostalgia for the Particular, 1951-57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThinking and Language\u003cbr\u003eNostalgia for the Particular\u003cbr\u003eMetaphysics and Ethics\u003cbr\u003eVision and Choice in Morality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Encountering Existentialism, 1950-59\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Novelist as Metaphysician\u003cbr\u003eThe Existentialist Hero\u003cbr\u003eSartre's \u003ci\u003eThe Emotions: Outline of a Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Beauvoir's \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Ambiguity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Image of Mind\u003cbr\u003eThe Existentialist Political Myth\u003cbr\u003eHegel in Modern Dress\u003cbr\u003eExistentialist Bite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: The Need for Theory, 1956-66\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnowing the Void\u003cbr\u003eT. S. Eliot as a Moralist\u003cbr\u003eA House of Theory\u003cbr\u003eMass, Might and Myth\u003cbr\u003eThe Darkness of Practical Reason\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: Towards a Practical Mysticism, 1959-78\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sublime and the Good\u003cbr\u003eExistentialists and Mystics\u003cbr\u003eSalvation by Words\u003cbr\u003eArt is the Imitation of Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Six: Can Literature Help Cure The Ills of Philosophy? 1959-61\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited\u003cbr\u003eAgainst Dryness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Seven: Re-reading Plato, 1964-86\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of Perfection\u003cbr\u003eOn \"God\" and \"Good\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts\u003cbr\u003eThe Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists\u003cbr\u003eArt and Eros: A Dialogue about Art\u003cbr\u003eAbove the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments and Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"Brilliantly readable . . . Murdoch can make the most demanding questions of life accessible and exciting.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExistentialists and Mystics \u003c\/i\u003edesribes the intellectual journey of a lifetime. This book is Murdoch's key. Readers will find much here to stimulate, entertain and edify. No one conveys the beauty and excitement of philosophy better than Murdoch.\" —Hilary Spurling, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Murdoch, a wondrous writer and a careful student of the history of thought, is endowed a rare talent for philosophical writing—she offers, in accessible prose, insight into some of the great questoins that have preoccupied thinkers for centuries.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tight, graceful writing, and a pleasure to read . . . [Murdoch's moral theory] has a real claim to our attention.\" —Elijah Millgram, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A perceptive investigation into the symbiotic relationship of philosophy and literature.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eIris Murdoch\u003c\/b\u003e (1919–1999) was born in Dublin and brought up in London. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and was a philosophy fellow at St. Anne's College for 20 years. She published her first novel in 1954 and was instantly recognized as a major talent. She went on to publish more than 26 novels, as well as works of philosophy, plays, and poetry.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303189336293,"sku":"NP9780140264920","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140264920.jpg?v=1767726524","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/existentialists-and-mystics-isbn-9780140264920","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}