A Mystical Philosophy: Transcendence and Immanence in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch

by Donna J. Lazenby

Book Overview

Revealing, in an original and provocative study, the mystical contents of the works of famous atheists Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch, Donna Lazenby shows how these thinkers' refusal to construe worldviews on available reductive models brought them to offer radically alternative pictures of life which maintain its mysteriousness, and promote a mystical way of knowing. A Mystical Philosophy contributes to the contemporary resurgence of interest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474242049
• ISBN13: 9781474242042
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"