Existentialists and mystics : writings on philosophy and literature

Murdoch, Iris (Author). Conradi, Peter J., 1945- (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0713992255 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780713992250 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxx, 546 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 1998.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Literature and philosophy: a conversation with Bryan Magee -- Thinking and language -- Nostalgia for the particular -- Metaphysics and ethics -- Vision and choice in morality -- 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 -- Knowing the void -- T.S. Eliot as a moralist -- A house of theory -- Mass, might and myth -- The darkness of practical reason -- The sublime and the good -- Existentialists and mystics -- Salvation by words -- Art is the imitaiton of nature -- The sublime and the beautiful revisited -- Against dryness -- 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