'The intellect has failed us' : mysticism and ethics in the Anglophone novel, 1953-1980

This thesis traces how, in the decades following the Second World War, dissatisfaction with prevailing ethical philosophies led several novelists to turn towards mystical concepts in order to recover an understanding of goodness as a property that exists separately from individual acts of will and r...

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Main Author: Clements, J. R.
Published: University of Cambridge 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597773