Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature
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Biografisk notat
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was born in Dublin and brought up in London. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and was a philosophy fellow at St. Anne's College for 20 years. She published her first novel in 1954 and was instantly recognized as a major talent. She went on to publish more than 26 novels, as well as works of philosophy, plays, and poetry."Brilliantly readable . . . Murdoch can make the most demanding questions of life accessible and exciting." —<i>The Baltimore Sun</i><br /><br />"<i>Existentialists and Mystics </i>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." —Hilary Spurling, <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br /><br />"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." —<i>San Diego Union </i><br /><br />"Tight, graceful writing, and a pleasure to read . . . [Murdoch's moral theory] has a real claim to our attention." —Elijah Millgram, <i>The Boston Review </i><br /><br />"A perceptive investigation into the symbiotic relationship of philosophy and literature." —<i>The Guardian</i>