Iris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist of extraordinary breadth and originality whose work defies simple categorisation. Her philosophical writing engages with an astonishingly wide range of figures, from Plato and Kant to Sartre and Heidegger, and her work increasingly inspires debate in ethics, aesthetics, religion, and literature.
The Murdochian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the full span of Murdoch's philosophical work, comprising 37 specially commissioned chapters written by an international team of leading scholars. Divided into five clear parts, the volume covers the following areas:
A guide to Murdoch's key philosophical texts, including The Sovereignty of Good and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals.
Core themes and concepts in Murdoch's philosophy, such as love, moral vision, and attention. Murdoch's engagement with the history of philosophy, including Plato, Kant, Hegel, Simone Weil, and Wittgenstein.
Interdisciplinary connections with art, literature, and religion, including Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Murdoch and contemporary philosophical debates, including feminism, virtue ethics, and metaethics. The application of Murdoch’s thought to applied ethics, including animal ethics, psychiatric ethics, and the environment.
Although recent years have seen a blossoming of interest in Murdoch’s philosophy, The Murdochian Mind is the first volume to do justice to the incredibly rich and wide-ranging nature of her work. As such it will be of great interest to students of philosophy, especially ethics and aesthetics, as well as those in related disciplines such as literature, religion, and gender studies.
Edited by:
Silvia Caprioglio Panizza,
Mark Hopwood
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032272986
ISBN 10: 1032272988
Series: Routledge Philosophical Minds
Pages: 530
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood Part 1: Reading Murdoch 1. The Importance of Murdoch`s early encounters with Marcel and Anscombe Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman 2. How to read The Sovereignty of Good Justin Broackes 3. How to read The Fire and the Sun David Robjant 4. How to read Acastos: Murdoch’s Platonic dialogues Hannah Marije Altorf 5. How to read Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals Mark Hopwood 6. How Iris Murdoch can change your life Frances White 7. Murdoch and me: A personal reflection Stanley Hauerwas Part 2: Core themes and concepts 8. Thinking, language, and concepts Niklas Forsberg 9. Inwardness in ethics Sophie Grace Chappell 10. Moral vision Anil Gomes 11. Attention Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 12. Love Christopher Cordner 13. Virtue Maria Silvia Vaccarezza 14. The Good Craig Taylor 15. The ontological argument Nora Hämäläinen 16. Care for the ordinary Sandra Laugier Part 3: Critical encounters 17. Murdoch and Plato Catherine Rowett 18. Murdoch and Kant Melissa Merritt 19. Murdoch and Hegel Gary Browning 20. Murdoch and Heidegger Michelle Mahoney 21. Murdoch and Sartre Alison Scott-Baumann 22. Murdoch and Weil Eva-Maria Düringer 23. Murdoch and Wittgenstein Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen 24. Murdoch and K.E. Løgstrup Robert Stern Part 4: Art, religion, and politics 25. Art, beauty, and morality Chiara Brozzo and Andy Hamilton 26. Is Murdoch a philosophical novelist? Miles Leeson 27. Writing morally Rowan Williams 28. Murdoch and Christianity Elizabeth Burns 29. Murdoch and Buddhism Christopher W. Gowans 30. Murdoch and Jewish thought Victor Jeleniewski Seidler 31. Murdoch and politics Lawrence Blum 32. Murdoch and feminism Lucy Bolton Part 5: Contemporary moral issues 33. Nature and the environment Lucy Oulton 34. Loving attention to animals Tony Milligan 35. Psychiatric ethics Anna Bergqvist 36. Moral injury Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon 37. Civility Megan Jane Laverty. Index
Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, and a fellow of the PEriTiA project (Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action) at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin. She has edited and translated Simone Weil’s Venice Saved with Philip Wilson (2019) and is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (2022). Mark Hopwood is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of the South, Sewanee, USA. He has published articles on a range of topics in moral philosophy, including love, narcissism, hypocrisy, and the nature of moral judgment, and is currently writing a book on Iris Murdoch’s ethics.
Reviews for The Murdochian Mind
'The Murdochian Mind is a whole three-day conference between covers. … The 2022 Iris Murdoch Conference took place while I was working on this review. Interleaved with my reading were emails and social media posts making me feel that, while I am on the other side of the world, the conversations are continuing wherever Murdochians meet, in person, on paper, or online. Books like this one enrich these conversations, and I congratulate Caprioglio Panizza and Hopwood – Silvia and Mark – on the enormous intellectual and organisational feat they have accomplished in bringing this book together.' - Gillian Dooley, Iris Murdoch Review
