Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel
Why Literature Is Not Philosophy
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 May 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350332911
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 238x164x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 554
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Long description:
Lyra Ekstrï¿1⁄2m Lindbï¿1⁄2ck 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, Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel delves into the aesthetic characteristics that distinguish philosophy and literature. Through a discussion of the illusion of sense, the role of conceptual thinking in literature, the clash between epistemology and fiction, the artifice of tragedy, and the ambiguous morality of artistic inspiration and experience, this study reveals literature as essentially other to philosophy.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. The Ancient Quarrel: A Background Story
2. What Is (Not) A Philosophical Novel? The Sensory Illusion of Sense
3. The Feel of Muddled Thinking: Conceptual content in literature following Kant's aesthetics
4. Real Characters and Fictional People: Stanley Cavell and the Epistemology of Fiction
5. Problems Purged: The Consolations of Tragedy
6. Playing with Fire: The Immorality of Literature
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index
