Best known as the author of twenty-six novels,Iris Murdochhas 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 ofT. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior, andElias Canetti, 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.Existentialists and Mysticsnot only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.Existentialists and Mystics Foreword 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'sThe Emotions: Outline of a Theory De Beauvoir'sThe 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 Void 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 Platolƒ7
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