Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals - Couverture rigide

Murdoch, Iris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701139986 ISBN 13 : 9780701139988

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1992

Synopsis

This book represents the summation of Murdoch's work as a philosopher. It surveys the development of Western philosophy, from Plato to Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein, and takes issue with new trends such as structuralism, arguing the case for a moral view in metaphysical argument. Iris Murdoch has written a number of short philosophical works including "The Fire and the Sun" and "Sartre: Romantic Rationalist".

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.

Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978), the James Tait Black Memorial prize-winning The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread prize-winning The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her philosophy includes Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992); other philosophical writings, including The Sovereignty of Good (1970), are collected in Existentialists and Mystics (1997).

Revue de presse

"This is philosophy dragged from the cloister, dusted down and made freshly relevant" (Terry Eagleton Guardian)

"Gripping...it enchants with a clause that sets you day-dreaming, captivates with a stream of thought, empowers with reminiscences" (London Review of Books)

"It is a great congested work, a foaming sourcebook, about life, imagination, tragedy, philosophy, morality, religion and art" (Independent)

"Remarkable... Iris Murdoch has once again put us all in her debt" (New York Times Book Review)

"Anyone who has even the slightest interest in philosophical matters will find Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals an utterly absorbing book" (Wall Street Journal)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701139986
• ISBN 13: 9780701139988
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 552
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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