IRIS MURDOCH

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This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdochs work in relation to current debates in philosophy theology literature gender and sexuality and authorship. The essays refine develop or contest previous readings and blur the distinction between liberal humanist and theoretical positions suggesting negotiatioAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on References and Abbreviations Preface: P.J.Conradi Introduction: A Large Hall of Reflection: A.Rowe PART 1: REINSTATING THEOLOGY Reconsidering Murdochs Moral Philosophy and Theology: M.Antonaccio All the World Must be Religious: Iris Murdochs Ontological Arguments: S.Mulhall Iris Murdochs Deconstructive Theology: S.Ramanathan PART 2: RECONSIDERING MORAL PHILOSOPHY Murdoch on the Impossibility of Moral Scepticism: E.Brugmans The Ethics of SelfConcern: S.Vice Virtue Ethics SelfRegard and The Sovereignty of Good: C.Mole PART 3: REVISITING THE SAINT AND THE ARTIST The Ascetic Impulse in Iris Murdochs Thought or The Saint and The Artist Revisited: M.Antonaccio The Curse of The Bell : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Narrative: B.Nicol PART 4: REREADING LITERATURE Saint Iris? Murdoch and the Modern Literary Canon: N.Turner Houses of Fiction: Iris Murdoch and Henry James: P.Martin Accepting the Other: Iris Murdoch and Carol Shields: A.Ramon Policemen in Search of a Team: Iris Murdochs The Black Prince and Ian McEwans Atonement: A.Rowe PART 5: RENEGOTIATING GENDER SEXUALITY AND FEMINISM Plato Foucault and Beyond: Ethics Beauty and Bisexuality in The Good Apprentice: T.Grimshaw Michele Le Doeuff and the Philosophical Imaginary: M.Altorf PART 6: REINVESTIGATING NEGATIVE CAPABILITY Iris Murdoch Freud and Negative Capability: P.J.Conradi Alzheimers Amyloid Analogy: Disease Depicted Through A Word Child:Anne Rowe has brought together a strong cast to write about Murdoch and theology philosophy and fiction. This then is an ambitious project and a much needed one as Murdoch is famous for using different registers for different purposes... Iris Murdoch: A Reassessment presents robust new material building on excellent work... Dr. Alison ScottBaumann The Iris MurdochMARIJE ALTORF Lecturer in Philosophy St Marys College Strawberry Hill UKMARIA ANTONACCIO Associate Professor of Religion Bucknell University USAEDITH BRUGMANS Professor of Philosophy Leiden University and Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law Radboud University The NetherlandsPETER J. CONRADI Emeritus Professor of English Kingston University and Honarary Research Fellow University College London UKTAMMY GRIMSHAW Recently completed her PhD studies at University of Leeds UKRIVKA ISAACSON Currently undertaking postdoctoral investigations at Imperial College London UKPRISCILLA MARTIN Teaches English and Classics at St Edmund Hall Oxford UKCHRISTOPHER MOLE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Programme Washington University St Louis USASTEPHEN MULHALL Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy New College Oxford UKBRAN NICOL Sen

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