Murdoch on Truth and Love

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Browning, Gary (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Philosophers in Depth
• Subjects: Modern philosophy.; Ethics.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Aesthetics.; Modern Philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

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....

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction; Gary Browning
• 2. 'The best moralists are the most satanic'; Anne Rowe
• 3. Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness; Sabina Lovibond
• 4. Constrained by Reason, Transformed by Love; Carla Bagnoli
• 5. Love and Knowledge in Murdoch; Sophie-Grace Chappell
• 6. 'Taking the Linguistic Method Seriously'; Niklas Forsberg
• 7. Murdoch and the End of Ideology; Gary Browning
• 8. Liberation Through Art; Rebecca Moden
• 9. 'It's like brown, it's not in the spectrum; Frances White
• Index.