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Iris Murdoch, Philosopher
Edited by Justin Broackes
400 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928990-5
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Hardback
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08 December 2011
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- Leading critics and admirers of Iris Murdoch examine various aspects of her legacy as a philosopher
- Includes a previously unpublished chapter from the book Murdoch had been working on shortly before her death, and a Memoir by her husband John Bayley
- A detailed introduction outlines Murdoch's career, reception, and achievement
Iris Murdoch was a notable philosopher before she was a notable novelist and her work was brave, brilliant, and independent. She made her name first for her challenges to Gilbert Ryle and behaviourism, and later for her book on Sartre (1953), but she had the greatest impact with her work in moral philosophy—and especially her book The Sovereignty of Good (1970). She turned expectantly from British linguistic philosophy to continental existentialism, but was dissatisfied there too; she devised a philosophy and a style of philosophy that were distinctively her own. Murdoch aimed to draw out the implications, for metaphysics and the
conception of the world, of rejecting the standard dichotomy of language into the 'descriptive' and the 'emotive'. She aimed, in Wittgensteinian spirit, to describe the phenomena of moral thinking more accurately than the 'linguistic behaviourists' like R. M. Hare. This 'empiricist' task could be acheived, Murdoch thought, only with help from the idealist tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Bradley. And she combined with this a moral psychology, or theory of motivation, that went back to Plato, but was influenced by Freud and Simone Weil. Murdoch's impact can be seen in the moral philosophy of John McDowell and, in different ways, in Richard Rorty and Charles Taylor, as well as in the recent movements under the headings of moral realism, particularism, moral perception, and virtue theory.
This volume brings together essays by critics and admirers of Murdoch's work, and includes a longer Introduction on Murdoch's career, reception, and achievement. It also contains a previously unpublished chapter from the book on Heidegger that Murdoch had been working on shortly before her death, and a Memoir by her husband John Bayley. It gives not only an introduction to Murdoch's important philosophical life and work, but also a picture of British philosophy in one of its heydays and at an important moment of transition.Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy and literature
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Edited by Justin Broackes, Brown University, Rhode Island Contributors:
Maria Antonaccio, Bucknell University
Carla Bagnoli, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
John Bayley, Oxford University
Lawrence Blum, University of Massachusetts
Justin Broackes, Brown University
Bridget Clarke, University of Montana
Peter Conradi, Kingston University, emeritus
Roger Crisp, Oxford University
Alison Denham, Oxford University
Julia Driver, Washington University, St Louis
Margaret Holland, University of Northern Iowa
Richard Moran, Harvard
University
Iris Murdoch
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
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"[this] fine collection of essays" - Jonathan Derbyshire, Literary Review "[a] fine collection" - Simon Blackburn, Times Literary Supplement "a milestone in the history of Murdoch scholarship" - Megan J. Laverty, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Justin Broackes: Introduction
Iris Murdoch: Heidegger: Sein und Zeit
John Bayley: Iris on Safari
1: Peter Conradi: Holy Fool and Magus
2: Martha Nussbaum: 'Faint with secret knowledge'
3: Maria Antonaccio: The Virtues of Metaphysics
4: Richard Moran: Iris Murdoch and Existentialism
5: Carla Bagnoli: The Exploration of Moral Life
6: Bridget Clarke: Iris Murdoch and the Prospects for Critical Moral Perception
7: Margaret Holland: Social Convention and Neurosis as Obstacles to Moral Freedom
8: Roger Crisp: Iris Murdoch on Nobility and Moral Value
9: Julia Driver: For every Foot its own Shoe
10: Lawrence Blum: Visual Metaphors in Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy
11: Alison Denham: Psychopathy, Empathy, & Moral Motivation
Bibliography
Index of Names
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