Sartre by Iris Murdoch - ISBN: 9780099273721
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Explore Sartre’s complex world: philosophy, politics, and literary genius.

Sartre

Romantic Rationalist

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    19 November 1999

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Summary

Iris Murdoch’s unique study of one of the 20th century’s foremost thinkers.

Sartre’s powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. Iris Murdoch’s pioneering study analyses and evaluates the different strands of Sartre’s rich and complex oeurve. Combining the objectivity of the scholar with a profound interest in contemporary problems, Iris Murdoch discusses the tradition of ph…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099273721
ISBN-10:0099273721
Author:Iris Murdoch
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:19 November 1999
Weight:121g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 10mm
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Critics Review

A penetrating introduction to the romantic rationalist, novelist and penseur

A penetrating introduction to the romantic rationalist, novelist and penseur * The Times *
Iris Murdoch’s concise study… reads as clear and logical as it did in 1953, and remains one of the best friends to anyone who wants to understand what existentialism was all about * Evening Standard *
With a cool and luminous introduction…Sartre: Romantic Rationalist is all about the thinker, about his philosophy and his novels… Her fair if unflattering book is the best way in to what finally matters to Sartre * Observer *
A remarkably intelligent and penetrating introduction to Sartre * Times Literary Supplement *

About The Author

Iris Murdoch

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.

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