Overview
- Allows readers to identify and explain discontinuities in Iris Murdoch's thought
- Offers a novel perspective on the practice of philosophy
- Explores Murdoch's early career writings
Part of the book series: Iris Murdoch Today (IMT)
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About this book
This book explores Iris Murdoch as a philosopher who, through her distinctive methodology, exploits the advantages of having a mind on the borders of literature and politics in her early career writings (pre-The Sovereignty of Good). By focusing on a single decade of Murdoch’s early career, Jamieson tracks connections between her views on the state of literature and politics in postwar Britain and her approach to the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy. Furthermore, this close study reveals that, far from a stylistic quirk, Murdoch’s use of metaphors, analogies, and other literary devices is internal to her methodology. Finally, rather than asking what Murdoch’s views are, this work will ask “what is Murdoch trying to achieve with her writings and public lectures, and how does she go about this?” By answering the latter question, we will have a new strategy for interpreting her writings more generally. The book contributes to the growing body of scholarship focusing on Iris Murdoch’s philosophical writings, and on women in the history of analytic philosophy.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lesley Jamieson is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Iris Murdoch’s Practical Metaphysics
Book Subtitle: A Guide to her Early Writings
Authors: Lesley Jamieson
Series Title: Iris Murdoch Today
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36080-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36079-4Published: 30 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36082-4Due: 30 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36080-0Published: 29 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-331X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3328
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 215
Topics: History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics, Cultural History, Philosophy of Mind, Literature, general