About “Existentialists and Mystics”
Existentialists and Mystics is a collection of Iris Murdoch's most influential literary and philosophical essays, first published in one volume. The book includes 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 sublime, the concept of love, and the role of great literature in philosophy.
Praise for “Existentialists and Mystics”
“Brilliantly readable . . . Murdoch can make the most demanding questions of life accessible and exciting.”
“Existentialists and Mystics desribes 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.”
“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.”
Book details
- Published
- 1998
- Latest edition
- 1998 · ISBN 9780140264920
- ISBN
- 9780140264920
Frequently asked questions
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Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch has 576 pages.
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