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Author : Cheryl Browning Bove
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087249876X
Describes Murdoch as preoccupied with love, art, & the possibility & difficulty of doing good & avoiding evil.
Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472574503
In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought. Browning argues for Murdoch's position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in detail her engagement with the notion of late modernity. Her multiple perspectives on art, philosophy, religion, politics and the self all relate to how she understands the nature of late modernity. Browning lucidly illustrates that through both her thought and fiction we can grasp the significance of issues that remain of paramount importance today: the possibilities of a moral life without foundations, the meaning of philosophy in a post-metaphysical age, the prospects of politics without ideological certainties and the significance of art after realism. A totally original work arguing persuasively that Iris Murdoch not only matters but is absolutely central to how we think through the contemporary age.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134575701
Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This brilliant work shows why Iris Murdoch remains essential reading: a vivid and uncompromising style, a commitment to forceful argument, and a courage to go against the grain. With a foreword by Mary Midgley.
Author : Maria Antonaccio,William Schweiker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226021122
A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF IRIS MURDOCH.
Author : Heather Widdows
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351885522
Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy, although highly influential in 20th century moral theory, is somewhat unsystematic and inaccessible. In this work Widdows outlines the moral vision of Iris Murdoch in its entirety and draws out the implications of her thought for the contemporary ethical debate, discussing such aspects of Murdoch's work as the influence of Plato on her conception of The Good, the reality of the human moral experience, the attainment of knowledge of moral values and how art and religion inform the living of the moral life. Examining all of Murdoch's contributions to moral philosophy from her short papers to Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Heather Widdows provides an accessible and systematised account of Murdoch's moral concepts and offers a clear and critical exposition of her thought. By clarifying Murdoch's central themes, core ideas and her picture of the moral life, this book enables her work to be more easily understood and so utilised in current debates.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000938555
Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found here.
Author : Sabina Lovibond
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136819360
Iris Murdoch was one of the best-known philosophers and novelists of the post-war period. In this book, Sabina Lovibond explores the tangled issue of Murdoch's stance towards gender and feminism, drawing upon the evidence of her fiction, philosophy, and other public statements. As well as analysing Murdoch's own attitudes, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is also a critical enquiry into the way we picture intellectual, and especially philosophical, activity. Appealing to the idea of a 'social imaginary' within which Murdoch's work is located, Lovibond examines the sense of incongruity or dissonance that may still affect our image of a woman philosopher, even where egalitarian views officially hold sway. The first thorough exploration of Murdoch and gender, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is a fresh contribution to debates in feminist philosophy and gender studies, and essential reading for anyone interested in Murdoch's literary and philosophical writing.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101495681
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409044055
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians - from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida - to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.
Author : Maria Antonaccio,William Schweiker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226021133
A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF IRIS MURDOCH.
Author : Megan Laverty
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000110552845
This book will be of great value to philosophers, gender theorists, literary critics and others engaged with the questions of life's meaning and what a deepened understanding of it looks like.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019314
It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their behalf. But opinions and loyalties have changed, and on this summer evening the long-resting ghosts of the past come careering back into the present.
Author : Anne Rowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230277229
Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory.
Author : Maria Antonaccio Assistant Professor of Religion Bucknell University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198030195
Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious ethics and political theory. Yet it has never been the subject of a book-length study in its own right. Picturing the Human seeks to fill this gap. In this groundbreaking book, author Maria Antonaccio presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Murdoch's moral philosophy. Unlike literary critical studies of her novels, it offers a general philosophical framework for assessing Murdoch's thought as a whole. Antonaccio also suggests a new interpretive method for reading Murdoch's philosophy and outlines the significance of her thought in the context of current debates in ethics. This vital study will appeal to those interested in moral philosophy, religious ethics, and literary criticism, and grants those who have long loved Murdoch's novels a closer look at her remarkable philosophy.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781440621161
Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the thought and writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior, and Elias Canetti, as well as key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, on the concept of love, and the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy.Existentialists and Mystics not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.