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Title: Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch, George Steiner, Peter Conradi ISBN: 0-14-026492-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost all of Murdoch's philosophizing in a single package
Comment: Except for Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, which is disorganized and verges on the incoherent, almost all of Murdoch's explicitly philosophical writing is here. So if you are going to be working on Murdoch's philosophy, this is a resource you need to have. However, if you're new to Murdoch's philosophical writing, you might do better taking a look at The Sovereignty of Good; it's got three of her best four essays, and it's a whole lot shorter and easier to find your way around in.
Rating: 4
Summary: Re-Affirming a Canon
Comment: Murdoch's essays each shine on their own, but collected here you get the full, accumulated brilliance in one volume. She is a needed voice in the post-modernist wilderness --- assuring the careful reader that there are works, though they may be formalist or outmoded or dated, that are worthy of the veneration and study of future generations. And, just as there are works of art that are "good" and that are superior to others, there are also actions and thoughts and moralities that are better than others. Her style is lucid and affecting and is never pedantic --- you are enthralled and rapt while you are being educated. Literature, like the other arts, is a form of communication that never ends. Art speaks to each generation; but some specific works of art transcend time and are contemplated anew by different human minds. Murdoch takes your chin and points your eyes towards these works, and you can see the eternal verities and the truths that shine out from them.
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Title: Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Classics) by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0415253993 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 23 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie ISBN: 014118616X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Saint and the Artist: A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch by Peter J. Conradi ISBN: 0007120192 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0141186690 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0140172327 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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