Existentialists and mystics : writings on philosophy and literature /

Murdoch, Iris, 1919-1999

Existentialists and mystics : writings on philosophy and literature / Iris Murdoch; edited and with a preface by Peter Conradi ; foreword by George Steiner - London : Chatto & Windus, 1997. - 546 σ. [χ.ε.] 24 εκ.

Απογρ. Ιανουάριος 2004

Περιλαμβάνει ευρετήριο (σσ. 534-546)

Περιεχόμενα: G. Steiner, Foreword / P. Conradi, Editor's preface / Part One: Prologue: Literature and Philosophy, A conversation with Bryan Magee / Part Two: Nostalgia for the particular, 1951-57: Thinking and language - Nostalgia for the particular - Metaphysics and ethics - Vision and choice in morality / Part Three: Encountering existentialism, 1950-59: The novelist as metaphysician - The existentialist hero - Sartre's "The emotions: outline of a theory" - De Beauvoir's "The ethics of ambiguity" - The image of mind - The existentialist political myth - Hegel in modern dress - Existentialist bite / Part Four: The need for theory, 1956-66: Knowing the vopid - T. S. Eliot as a moralist - A House of theory - Mass, might and myth - The darkness of practical reason / Part Five: Towards a practical mysticism, 1959-78: The sublime and the good - Existentialists and mystics - Salvation by words - Art is the imitation of nature / Part Six: Can literature help cure the ills of philosophy? 1959-61: The sublime and the beautiful revisited - Against dryness / Part Seven: Re-reading Plato, 1964-86: The idea of perfection - On 'God' and 'Good' - The sovereignty of good over other concepts - The fire and the sun: why Plato banished the artists - Art and Eros: a dialogue about art - Above the gods: a dialogue about religion / Acknowledgements and sources / Index

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