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   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.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Iris-MurdochIris Murdoch | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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   5 days ago · Iris Murdoch (born July 15, 1919, Dublin, Ireland—died February 8, 1999, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was a British novelist and philosopher noted for her psychological novels that contain philosophical and comic elements. After an early childhood spent in London, Murdoch went to Badminton School, Bristol, and from 1938 to 1942 studied at ...

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4. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresWhere to start with Iris Murdoch: a guide to her best novels

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   Nov 9, 2023 · Iris Murdoch was a productive writer of 26 novels and five works of philosophy. The critic Francis Wyndham pictured her ‘seated between two massive piles of manuscript, moving only to write, one pile of empty paper, the other full, her industry phenomenal’. She worked and reworked her themes over four decades, forever seeking to perfect her ...

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6. fivebooks.com › best-books › iris-murdoch-miles-leesonThe Best Iris Murdoch Books | Five Books Expert Recommendations

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   Jan 20, 2020 · by Miles Leeson. Read. 1 The Bell by Iris Murdoch. 2 The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch. 3 A Word Child by Iris Murdoch. 4 Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch. 5 The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch.

7. www.nytimes.com › in-praise-of-iris-murdochIn Praise of Iris Murdoch - The New York Times

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   Jan 3, 2019 · In Praise of Iris Murdoch. The British author Iris Murdoch in London in 1966. Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images. I grew up in a family in which reading wasn’t simply a regular ...

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   Who is Iris Murdoch?

   • The British author Iris Murdoch in London in 1966. Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images I grew up in a family in which reading wasn’t simply a regular activity, it was a public one. Books were everywhere, lying broken-spined on kitchen counters and bathroom radiators, in unmade beds, splayed on chair arms.

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   Who is Dame Jean 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.

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   Was Iris Murdoch Irish?

   • Iris Murdoch was one of the greatest novelists of the late twentieth century, as well as a British philosopher. She always considered herself to be Anglo-Irish, although she’s very keen on her Irishness towards the end of her life.

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   Did Dame Iris Murdoch have a philosophy of life?

   • Children were wise and adults idiotic, and everyone was attempting some humanly self-interested version of their best. Dame Iris Murdoch had been a philosophy don at Oxford before she became a novelist, and as far as I was concerned, her philosophy of life was spot on, as someone in a British novel might say.

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9. www.theguardian.com › books › 2019Iris Murdoch at 100: ‘Her books are full of passion and ...

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   Jul 13, 2019 · Iris Murdoch with John Bayley in 1997. Photograph: Rob Judges/Rex Features. But Murdoch’s contrivances contained, for her, the terrifying truth that human beings, in the absence of God, are off ...

10. plato.stanford.edu › entries › murdochIris Murdoch (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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    Mar 23, 2022 · Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was a prominent British philosopher of the second half of the 20 th century, best known for her moral philosophy. Unusual for her times, she combined her grounding in Wittgensteinian and linguistic/analytic philosophy with a strong influence of 19th and 20 th century Continental philosophy, Christian religion and thought, and Hindu and Buddhist philosophy.