Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature is Not Philosophy
Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, "Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature is Not Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 1350332917 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 680 KB
English | ISBN: 1350332917 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 680 KB
Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch's work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her insistence on the separation between the two.
Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel makes a break with existing scholarship on Murdoch's philosophy and literature that ultimately re-states the philosophical value of literature, alongside literary aspects of philosophy. This book differs by deepening Murdoch's insistence on the differences between the disciplines, providing a consistent and polemical argument for the distinction between literature and philosophy more generally. Engaging thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Weil, and Cavell,
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