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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
PART ONE - Prologue
Literature and Philosophy: A Conversation with Bryan Magee
PART TWO - Nostalgia for the Particular, 1951-57
Thinking and Language
Nostalgia for the Particular
Metaphysics and Ethics
Vision and Choice in Morality
PART THREE - Encountering Existentialism, 1950-59
The Novelist as Metaphysician
The Existentialist Hero
Sartre’s The Emotions: Outline of a Theory
De Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity
The Image of Mind
The Existentialist Political Myth
Hegel in Modern Dress
Existentialist Bite
PART FOUR - The Need for Theory, 1956-66
Knowing the Void
T. S. Eliot as a Moralist
A House of Theory
Mass, Might and Myth
The Darkness of Practical Reason
PART FIVE - Towards a Practical Mysticism, 1959-78
The Sublime and the Good
Existentialists and Mystics
Salvation by Words
Art is the Imitation of Nature
PART SIX - Can Literature Help Cure the Ills of Philosophy? 1959-61
The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited
Against Dryness
PART SEVEN - Re-reading Plato, 1964-86
The Idea of Perfection
On ‘God’ and ‘Good’
The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts
The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists
Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art
Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Acknowledgements
Index
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