Iris Murdoch And The Ancient Quarrel

Author : Lyra Ekström Lindbäck
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel written by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Plato banished the poets from his ideal philosophical state, he accused their work of being merely an art of illusions: speaking to the lower parts of our soul, making us take the sensuously apparent as unquestionably true, relaxing our impulses for philosophical investigation and giving us license to have way too much erotically charged fun. Since then, a great deal of philosophical work has been dedicated to proving him wrong by defending a view of literature as philosophically relevant, or even as being philosophy in another form. Iris Murdoch, philosopher and novelist, is one of the few modern thinkers who has taken Plato?s side in this ancient quarrel, by insisting on a firm distinction between philosophy and literature. Nonetheless, most of the scholarship on her work has (often in order to read her own novels as philosophical) disputed her emphasis on the distinction. In this dissertation, I set out to do the opposite. With Murdoch as my main guide, among other thinkers such as Stanley Cavell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone Weil, Hegel, Kant and Plato, I argue for why literature is not philosophy. After giving a historical background for the ancient quarrel, I propose some aesthetic characteristics which make it unfruitful, unnecessary or misguided to regard literature as philosophical. Through a discussion of the sensory illusion of sense, the role of conceptual thinking in literature, the clash between epistemology and fiction, the consolations of tragedy, and the immorality of art, I provide an extensive description of literature as distinct from philosophy

Author : Lyra Ekström Lindbäck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350332925
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel written by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch's work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her insistence on the separation between the two. Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel makes a break with existing scholarship on Murdoch's philosophy and literature that ultimately re-states the philosophical value of literature, alongside literary aspects of philosophy. This book differs by deepening Murdoch's insistence on the differences between the disciplines, providing a consistent and polemical argument for the distinction between literature and philosophy more generally. Engaging thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Weil, and Cavell, Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel delves into the aesthetic characteristics that distinguish philosophy and literature. Through a discussion of the illusion of sense, the role of conceptual thinking in literature, the clash between epistemology and fiction, the artifice of tragedy, and the ambiguous morality of artistic inspiration and experience, this study reveals literature as essentially other to philosophy.

Author : Colin Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763062
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Excess written by Colin Davis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major "overreaders"Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj i ek and Stanley Cavelland asks what is at stake and what is to be gained by their approaches to literature and film."

Author : Nora Hämäläinen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030189678
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals written by Nora Hämäläinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was Iris Murdoch’s major philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt to talk about our time. Yet in the scholarship on her philosophical work thus far it has often been left in the shade of her earlier work. This volume brings together 16 scholars who offer accessible readings of chapters and themes in the book, connecting them to Murdoch’s larger oeuvre, as well as to central themes in 20th century and contemporary thought. The essays bring forth the strength, originality, and continuing relevance of Murdoch’s late thought, addressing, among other matters, her thinking about the Good, the role and nature of metaphysics in the contemporary world, the roles of art in human understanding, questions of unity and plurality in thinking, the possibilities of spiritual life without God, and questions of style and sensibility in intellectual work.

Author : Justin Broackes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199289905
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch, Philosopher written by Justin Broackes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch was a notable philosopher before she was a notable novelist and her work was brave, brilliant, and independent. This volume presents essays by critics and admirers of her work, together with a long Introduction on her career, reception, and achievement, an unpublished piece by Murdoch herself, and a memoir by her husband John Bayley.

Author : Suguna Ramanathan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349210544
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch written by Suguna Ramanathan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-10-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darío, Borges, Neruda and the Ancient Quarrel Between Poets and Philosophers written by Jason Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clare Mac Cumhaill
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1984898981
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Animals written by Clare Mac Cumhaill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations. Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.

Author : Tiger C. Roholt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144115891X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key Terms in Philosophy of Art written by Tiger C. Roholt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Terms in Philosophy of Art offers a clear, concise and accessible introduction to a vital sub-field of philosophy. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this key area of philosophical thought. Ideal for first-year students coming to the subject for the first time, Key Terms in Philosophy of Art will serve as the ideal companion to the study of this fascinating subject. Tiger C. Roholt provides detailed summaries of core concepts in the philosophy of art. An introductory chapter provides context and background, while the following chapters offer detailed definitions of key terms and concepts, introductions to the work of key thinkers, summaries of key texts, introductions to philosophy's approach to the major art forms, and advice on further reading. Designed specifically to meet the needs of students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this is the ideal reference tool for those coming to philosophy of art for the first time.

Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010543
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy written by Anthony J. Cascardi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Introduction provides an original, synthetic overview of the relations between literature and philosophy from ancient times to the present. The book covers a wide range of genres, historical periods, and topics, making it a valuable introduction and guide for students, teachers, and researchers in literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy.