Titlebook: Iris Murdoch; A Reassessment Anne Rowe (Senior Lecturer in English Literature) Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publis

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disciplined

The Curse of ,: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Narratived the issues dealt with in her nonfiction, and perhaps also because of an implicit hierarchy which prevails in contemporary critical practice whereby theoretical pronouncements are privileged over fictional practice.

卜聞

pacific

Plato, Foucault and Beyond: Ethics, Beauty and Bisexuality in lity and ethics. I hope to demonstrate that, in displaying an interest in these themes, Murdoch’s work provides a forum for a consideration of other contemporary thinkers, particularly Michel Foucault, who also displayed a preoccupation with sexuality and ethics in . (1982) and . (1984).

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Attention, Self and ly, so as to include character traits) are morally important .: that their moral importance is not exhausted by the importance they derive from the actions they might lead one to perform or the states of affairs that they might help to bring about..

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The Ascetic Impulse in Iris Murdoch’s Thoughtough the contrast between the two ideals is not absolute, the tension ‘between a spiritual and a secular or worldly view of the moral agent’, Conradi writes, ‘a(chǎn)nimates [Murdoch’s] work from the beginning’ (p. xiv).

Conjuction

A Literary Foremother: Iris Murdoch and Carol Shieldswho figured frequently in Shields’s list of literary influences, the cited interview is the only one in which Shields alluded to Murdoch directly. Yet there is further evidence which reveals her engagement with Murdoch’s writing.

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‘All the World Must Be “Religious”’: Iris Murdoch’s Ontological Argumentsnd the reach of argument; but they are surely not beyond evaluation. And anyway, as Murdoch herself puts it, ‘in philosophy we go where the honey is. Some thinkers are, for us, live and life-giving, others are dead […] Anyone in the philosophical trade seeks in other philosophers for ideas which the