Iris Murdoch

Philosophical Novelist
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8264-4370-0
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

This book provides a concise and highly readable reassessment of Iris Murdoch’s engagement with philosophy throughout her life and proposes that she was, most importantly, a philosophical novelist.
By investigating her use of philosophical argument in her fictional writing, it becomes clear that her narratives always depend upon a strong metaphysical underpinning. Leeson proceeds thematically through the philosophical phases of Murdoch’s life and develops a clear argument that Murdoch reacts against the philosophies of Sartre, Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger not only in her philosophical writings but also in her fiction. Indeed, it is in her fiction that her philosophical argument is most persuasive and accessible.
This timely study provides new information regarding Murdoch’s engagement with Martin Heidegger and also provides a detailed critique of critics who have overlooked Murdoch’s engagement with philosophy within her fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leeson, Miles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Murdoch’s earliest work and the Existential
3. A Severed Head: The Impact of Freud and Nietzsche
4. Heidegger and The Time of the Angels
5. The Bell and Platonism
6. The Philosopher’s Pupil: A Revision of Ideas?
7. A Wittgensteinian Neo-Platonist: The Green Knight
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Miles Leeson is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK.