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    Iris Murdoch is introduced as a writer of brave and open -minded novels that are not only idiosyncratic in their dealing with issues that push ag. ... Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. Religious Studies. ... (1919-1999)', Iris Murdoch, Writers and Their Work (Liverpool, 2019; online edn, Liverpool Scholarship Online, ...
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    Dec 13, 2023Besides her fame as a Booker Prize winner and moral philosopher, Iris Murdoch was also an author who had been fascinated with religion all her life. The intricacy of her literary writings, philosophical thoughts, and religious stance has been explored by Murdochian scholars for decades.
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    It challenges one of the standard interpretations of Murdoch as an antitheorist who defended the moral efficacy of art and narrative over "theory." Although Murdoch was one of the first to argue that literature is "a way to understand and picture human situations," she was not an antitheorist strictly speaking.
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    Jun 24, 2024Murdoch had lifelong interests in politics, literature, and philosophy. More than that, Murdoch sees experience, historical experience, as the foundation upon which literature, philosophy, and political theory are based. Hence, in reading Murdoch we get a clear insight into the nature of the political world in the twentieth century.
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    Jun 24, 2024It poses the question of Murdoch's status as a political thinker, and argues strongly in favour of the view that she was a political theorist alongside being a philosopher and novelist. Her early radicalism and later more sceptical politics reflect and challenge contemporary views of the political.
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    This volume takes into account the variety of talents that inform not only Iris Murdoch's twenty-six best-selling novels, but also her philosophical, ... Religion and Art, Literature, and Music. Religious Studies. ... Iris Murdoch, Writers and Their Work (Liverpool, 2019; online edn, Liverpool Scholarship Online
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    Abstract. Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious ethics and political theory.
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    Abstract. Murdoch wrote a number of plays, with decided political themes. She composed three important ones in 1969, The Servants and the Snow, The Three Arrows, and Joanna, Joanna. The Servants and the Snow is set somewhere in Central or Eastern Europe and deals with the succession to an autocratic ruler. Basil, a liberal-minded son takes over from a tyrant.
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    AbstractIt is quite clear that love plays an absolutely crucial role in Iris Murdoch's philosophy. This chapter argues that Murdoch, in contrast to much co. ... (Fiction, Novelists, and Prose Writers) Literary Studies (Gender Studies) Literary Studies (Graphic Novels) Literary Studies (History of the Book) ... Religion and Art, Literature ...
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    Murdoch's insistence, in this and other essays, on a "thicker," more substantial conception of the self as moral agent, on the recovery of a metaphysical notion of the good, and on the deficiencies of rationalist and voluntaristic conceptions of freedom and moral choice have made her thought attractive to a variety of contemporary communitarian, particularist, and feminist thinkers.
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