Murdoch on Truth and Love

Description

This book reviews Iris Murdoch’s thought as a whole. It surveys the breadth of her thinking, taking account of her philosophical works, her novels and her letters. It shows how she explored many aspects of experience and brought together apparently contradictory concepts such as truth and love. The volume deals with her notions of truth, love, language, morality, politics and her life. It shows how she offers a challenging provocative way of seeing things which is related to but distinct from standard forms of analytical philosophy and Continental thought. Unlike so many philosophers she does offer a philosophy to live by and unlike many novelists she has reflected deeply on the kind of novels she aimed to write. The upshot is that her novels and her philosophy can be read together productively as contributions to how we can see others and the world. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: Interpreting Murdoch—Truth and Love Revisited (Gary Browning)....Pages 1-20 ‘The best moralists are the most satanic’: Iris Murdoch—On Art and Life (Anne Rowe)....Pages 21-42 Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness (Sabina Lovibond)....Pages 43-61 Constrained by Reason, Transformed by Love: Murdoch on the Standard of Proof (Carla Bagnoli)....Pages 63-88 Love and Knowledge in Murdoch (Sophie-Grace Chappell)....Pages 89-108 ‘Taking the Linguistic Method Seriously’: On Iris Murdoch on Language and Linguistic Philosophy (Niklas Forsberg)....Pages 109-132 Murdoch and the End of Ideology (Gary Browning)....Pages 133-157 ‘Liberation Through Art’: Form and Transformation in Murdoch’s Fiction (Rebecca Moden)....Pages 159-181 ‘It’s like brown, it’s not in the spectrum’: The Problem of Justice in Iris Murdoch’s Thought (Frances White)....Pages 183-210 Back Matter ....Pages 211-226