Murdoch, Iris, EXISTENTIALISTS AND MYSTICS

Murdoch, Iris

EXISTENTIALISTS AND MYSTICS, Writings on Philosophy and Literature, Penguin Books, New York, 1998  (reimpr.).

In-8º, de XXX-546 pp., brochado.  Reimpressão  da edição americana de 1998, c/ prefácio de George Steiner.  Foram reunidos neste volume, pela 1ª vez, os ensaios literários e filosóficos  mais significativos de I. Murdoch.  Em Inglês.

“Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic, who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. Existentialists and Mystics gathers for the first time in one volume her most influentional essays and short pieces.  Included are her major critiques  of existentialism written in the 1950’s, her two Platonic dialogues on art and religion, incisive evaluations of the writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and Elias Canetti, as well as key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, on the concept of love, and on the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy.

The lucid, enlightening volume from one of the most impassioned intellects of our time confirms Iris Murdoch’s major contributions to the literature and thought of the twentieth century.”  (from the cover)

“After World War II, [Murdoch] established herself as an authority on existentialism, though she did not herself accept this doctrine, viewing it as stressing human autonomy to an undue degree.  She locates a similar failing in much contemporary analytic moral philosophy. Instead, she thinks of values as objective: human beings contemplate them rather than create them. Her philosophy culminates in a nontheistic mysticism bearing strong affinities to Plato. The best introduction available to an important and unusual thinker; for all academic and most public libraries.”  David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio  (> Library Journal)

Bio-bibliografia de Iris Murdoch (Dublin, 1919-1999) em:  http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Iris_Murdoch 

Dim.:  20,5 x 14  cm