And yet it also creates an egoistic fog around lovers, preventing them from seeing the other person truly. It reveals the sheer particularity of another person in a way that perhaps no other human experience can. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.Įrotic love illuminates and blinds. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. This edition with an introduction by Martha C. Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, Englandįirst published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus 1973įirst published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1973 Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
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She also wrote several plays and a volume of poetry. Her works of philosophy include Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1987), Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1993), and Existentialists and Mystics (1998). She received a number of other literary awards, among them the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince (1973) and the Whit-bread Prize for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Murdoch wrote twenty-six novels, including Under the Net, her writing debut of 1954, and the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, the Sea (1978). In 1987 she was appointed Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire.
Anne’s College, Oxford, where for many years she taught philosophy. Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919, grew up in London, and received her university education at Oxford and later at Cambridge.
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