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The society exists to champion the work, and celebrate the life, of the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch: one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Twentieth Century. Murdoch's work spans fiction (26 novels), philosophy, plays, poetry and thousands of letters.
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May 5, 2024 · The novels illustrate Murdoch’s conviction that although human beings think they are free to exercise rational control over their lives and behaviour, they are actually at the mercy of the unconscious mind, the determining effects of society at large, and other, more inhuman, forces.
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Mar 23, 2022 · The Iris Murdoch Society publishes (since 2008) a twice-yearly journal, the Iris Murdoch Review (see Other Internet Resources), that had been almost entirely a venue for scholarship and commentary on Murdoch’s literary oeuvre, but recently has started to carry much more philosophy.
- ‘What Is It Good to Be?’
- Self-Regard and Unselfies
- Magical Thinking
- Fiction and Frisson
- Imperfect Love
It turns out Iris Murdoch was already writing these novels, which is why she deserves our attention now in the 21st century. This year—the centenary of her birth and the 20th anniversary of her death—is a fitting occasion to revisit her work. We in the United States might not have been ready for Murdoch in her lifetime. She wrote in and for a post-...
It might seem odd to suggest our problem is self-regard when so many people are clearly passionate about justice. But Murdoch provides tools to see that much that we call justice is the equal-opportunity expansion of the claims of the ego. In one sense, this is the correction of a certain unfairness—that self-regard used to be a luxury for a privil...
Not surprisingly, Murdoch often mentions religion as another source of unselfing. But her account of religion—and the slide from God to the Good—is both helpful and frustrating. On the one hand, Murdoch reads like an advance scout for a secular age. (It is no surprise that Charles Taylor confesses his own debts to Murdoch, even as he disagrees with...
While Browning is right to argue that Murdoch (still) matters, he does a disservice to Murdoch in significant ways. Rather than providing a window into what makes Murdoch so enticing—her stylistic capacity to write in voices that are variously incisive and supple—Browning’s prose bricks up almost every portal of light. One might have hoped for a bo...
I might suggest one of her often overlooked novels as particularly relevant today, showing Murdoch to be an incisive psychologist of the lure of the so-called Benedict option. In The Bell,a tiny band of faithful, unnerved by the pressures and pace of the modern world, aim to establish a quasi-monastic lay community on the grounds of Imber Abbey. Ev...
Iris Murdoch. Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE ( / ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
Women. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Murdoch, Iris (1919–1999) views 1,592,418 updated. Murdoch, Iris (1919–1999) Prominent 20th-century English moral philosopher, as well as a gifted, prolific, and widely acclaimed novelist. Name variations: Dame Iris Murdoch. Pronunciation: MER-dock.
